Summary: The Biden administration effectively addressed key issues like unemployment, inflation, and crime during the early 2020s. They focused on practical solutions, such as increasing jobs and supporting manufacturing, while also responding to public concerns about the border crisis. Despite some challenges, Biden’s policies led to significant improvements in the economy and public safety.
Biden helped fix unemployment
We’ve gotten so used to full employment in America over the past few years that we forget how dire the situation was during the pandemic. When Biden took office, there were 10 million fewer Americans with jobs than before the pandemic. By the time he leaves office, there will be 7 million more (View Highlight)
A lot of progressives had allowed themselves to believe that the effect of policing on crime is small or zero; the events of 2020 and 2021 provided a brutal, difficult lesson that police are actually really effective in reducing crime. Thomas Hobbes was correct, and he remains correct. (View Highlight)
In the long term, fixing the border will require amending U.S. asylum law to deny asylum claims to people who cross the border illegally. This will permanently remove the incentive to violate the country’s borders in search of asylum. (View Highlight)