from Jacobin article:
A few weeks back, I was exchanging the usual banter with a taxi driver, Amandeep, an Indian immigrant who had lived in New York nearly two decades, when the conversation turned to politics. After telling me about the racist and sexist treatment she sometimes gets from passengers, Amandeep bluntly told me how little she thought of President Joe Biden — and how much she missed Donald Trump.
Biden, in her view, had done “nothing for the people,” and whereas inflation was currently burning a hole through hers and everyone else’s wallets, things had been good under Trump. It wasn’t just the stronger economy. Amandeep remembered the stimulus checks she’d gotten from Trump, checks that, at least as she remembered it, stopped coming once Biden came into office.
But didn’t Trump often say things that were rude and offensive? At least Biden is, in the eyes of many, a decent man. “Trump talked too much,” she replied. “But he did things for the people.”
It would be easier to write this off as the thoughts of a single eccentric voter if there weren’t so much data pointing in a similar direction. Biden is in trouble.
Multiple reports say Bernie Sanders hasn’t ruled out another presidential campaign. He should go for it.
jacobin.com