President Joe Biden deserves better grades than he’s getting from public opinion polls.
Americans are quicker to blame presidents for what’s beyond their control than to praise them for what they accomplish. So it’s more a case of fate than fairness that Biden is being attacked for an inflation rate brought on by a pandemic that was raging worldwide before he took office.
That’s causing jitters on Wall Street, where big investors worry less about inflation than what the independent Federal Reserve might do about it. A substantial majority of Republicans still believes former President Donald Trump’s big lie that the election was stolen, which puts Biden at a disadvantage when pollsters ask how he’s doing.
