When Joe biden bangs on about bipartisanship and compromising, some Democrats think he’s out of touch. But the accumulating evidence suggests he understands how to make progress better than they do
in almost 30 years and a $1.2trn infrastructure law, achievements that by definition are also a credit to Republicans. Mr Biden’s patience for talks and tolerance for compromise, not qualities associated with the previous president, have also yielded breakthroughs on fighting climate change and restraining drug costs.
Where Mr Biden has had more impressive success is in realising high-profile agenda items. In such cases, the perverse incentives of polarisation tend to kick in, as the opposition party unites to deny the president a victory. That dynamic makes it more critical for the president to hold together members of his party, empowering those politicians, likeof West Virginia, who sit at its extremes.
This is good news for Democrats running in the mid-term elections. But Mr Biden’s legislative wins, his deft management of the Ukraine crisis, and even the killing of Ayman Al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda’s leader, seem unlikely, for now, to improve his own dismal approval rating. His standing was lower in July than that of all but one of the presidents tracked by Gallup at that stage in office . Democratic and Republican lawmakers advance many theories for this.
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