WASHINGTON — One was a new Democratic president who inherited an intractable crisis while pushing a stalled legislative agenda marked by contentious debate.
The other was Joe Biden.
As the current president begins his second year in office, some Democrats fear Biden is stuck in a painful cycle similar to one that beset former President Barack Obama, who in 2010 suffered electoral backlash when the country rebounded more slowly than expected from the Great Recession.
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