Biden has been a terrific president. The big legislation. The way he played Kevin McCarthy on the debt deal. The global leadership against Putin. The plain human decency restored to the White House after four years of self-obsessed thuggery. Oh—the 13 million jobs created since he took office, which is more jobs in 28 months than created under any other president, in all of our history, in a full four-year term.

I bet you didn’t know that last fact. The president and his administration mention it, as in this press statement. But do they crow about it? Do congressional Democrats crow about it? What percentage of the American electorate do we think knows this fact—2, 3? And let me ask you this. If a Republican president had accomplished that, what percentage of voters would know it? A hell of a lot more, because congressional Republicans and the propagandists on Fox and elsewhere would be saying it every day, several times a day.

[It’s hard to measure just how delusional this is. The reason the White House isn’t “crowing” about it is because those jobs weren’t “created” by Biden — they were almost all recovered after the national shutdown. The current job level is 156.1 million, which is 3.8 million or so above February 2020’s 152.37 million level. A gain of 3.8 million over three years with population growth at around 2 million a year is roughly what one would expect with a labor force participation rate of 62%. We’ve basically caught up to where we would have been without the pandemic, only with 40-year highs in inflation, rapidly increasing interest rates, and so on.

That’s the reason Democrats aren’t crowing about it. And Biden’s “big legislation” is what catalyzed inflation, so they’re quiet about that these days, too. That’s why they’re obsessing over “Ultra-MAGA” rather than defending the president that abandoned Americans to the Taliban. — Ed]