Commentary: Why is US President Joe Biden looking upbeat about 2022?

understandably drew the attention of America’s allies and foreign policy analysts.

One reporter after another laid out the disappointments of Biden’s first year in office, focusing primarily on domestic policy: Biden’s major social spending programme – Build Back Better – is stalled in Congress.Inflation is high. COVID-19 continues. And the country is more polarised than ever.Most politicians in Biden’s position would be inclined to attempt a reframing of these disappointments, but it’s difficult to maintain that posture over two hours.

However, Biden’s behaviour reflected more than his ambition; he seemed certain that he had been largely successful in the first year.I’ve written before about Biden’s domestic agenda representing a philosophical break with the limited government and neoliberal economic policies that have dominated White House thinking since the election of Ronald Reagan; a break that involves prioritising the concerns of working-class Americans who comprise two-thirds of the adult American population.

In 2021, the Biden administration significantly improved conditions for working-class Americans. The US$1.9 trillion “American Rescue Plan” lifted the wages and overall wealth of working-class people, a phenomenon that has been moving in the opposite direction for decades. Republican Senator Mitt Romney has proposed a similar bill, and a credible case can be made that his bill is a better long-term solution.

Reporters questioned how the president could have been surprised by Republican intransigence and congressional obstruction given his experience as Barack Obama’s vice president, but it’s clear Biden felt like he had to try, although he’s done trying for now.

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