Source: The American Prospect
by Robert Kuttner
“President Biden’s piece in the Prospect provides a fair, accurate, and impressive summary of all that he accomplished. A question that will perplex historians for some time to come is why Biden did not get more political credit, and why Vice President Harris was not able to turn the real achievements of the Biden-Harris presidency into a winning campaign. A related question is how the policy success and political failure of the Biden presidency should inform the future positioning of the Democratic Party. In early 2022, I published a book on the first two years of Biden’s presidency titled Going Big: FDR’s Legacy, Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy. In that book, I credited Biden with governing as far more of a progressive than most Americans expected.” (12/16/24)
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2024-12-16-bidens-economic-triumph-political-tragedy/