Joe Biden now realizes he made some mistakes during his time in office:
President Joe Biden — in an interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell that aired Thursday and which was Biden’s last TV sit-down as POTUS ? reflected on his failure to hype up his and Democratic accomplishments when in office.
“The mistake we made was, I think I made, was not getting our allies to acknowledge that ‘the Democrats did this,‘” Biden said. “So, for example, build a new billion-dollar bridge over a river. Well, call it the ‘Democratic bridge,’ figuratively speaking. Talk about who put it together. Let people know that this is something the Democrats did. That it was done by the party.”
“I’m not a very good huckster,” Biden acknowledged.
Maybe Biden or his aides should have read any of the left wing blogs, where this point has been made again and again. I doubt that I could count the number of pieces I’ve posted (Yes, I know this blog is too obscure to expect them to read) complaining about the inability of Democrats to message. Biden got a lot accomplished during his presidency, but thanks to the Democrats’ failure to pound away at the press for failing to report it, very few people in this country were aware of it.
Sadly, it appears they still have not learned their lesson. What, for instance, has been their response to the Republicans’ claims that the California fires were caused by Democratic policies. The idea is absurd on its face, but heaven forbid that the Democrats should engage in any coordinated pushback. And how would the Republicans be reacting if Zuckerberg had abolished his fact checking policy in order to kiss the ass of a Democrat? Along these lines, bear in mind that the Democrats deprived AOC of a committee assignment that would have enabled her to more effectively message on their behalf, in deference to a geezer from whom we will hear nothing for the next four years.
UPDATE: Look for the Republicans to blame the Democrats for the demise of TikTok, even though Trump encouraged it and it was passed in a Congress controlled by Republicans. Look for the Democrats to have no response. (It was a stupid thing to do, but both parties are responsible.)