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Isn't that true for just about any democratic president? The bushes ruined the economy, Clinton and Obama fixed it. Republicans receive an awesome country, take credit for it, ruin it, then blame a democrat president for the mess they left behind.
This has been the cycle. But now the cycle will change from ruining the economy to ruining the economy and democracy itself. Once trump is done ratfucking the country for 4 years, the dems will get blamed.
None of them fixed the economy, they just made the lines go up again.
And he'll stay in office because someone dared to pretend to hold him responsible. People really need to get over the idea that it's only 4 more years.
Since the formation of the Democratic Party there haven't ever been two Democrats elected subsequently without the first one dying in office. The pendulum is constantly swinging back and forth, getting further to the right with each swing.
Hell, that might have been the Dems' original plan: get Biden elected a second time, have him retire during his second term, then Harris gets all the goodwill and she might have been able to keep a D in the White House until 2032. It would have been a shitty plan, doomed to fail even worse, but it would explain why they waited so damn long for Biden to step aside.