Joe Biden’s economy is harming all of us, from the poorest and, yes, even to the richest of us. And even Bill Clinton is admitting that the left’s claims that the economy is “doing great” is just not true.
Clinton was speaking to NPR this week when he spoke out against his own side’s absurd happy talk.
Clinton said that the Democrats “can’t keep asserting that things are great in the economy.”
He agreed that there are some bright spots in the economy, the truth is “we’re saddled with some cost of living challenges — which are not unique to the United States — but it’s pretty hard if you’re out there in the middle of the country and you’re working hard and you’ve got two or three kids and you have to watch every penny you make. And, secondly, the economic benefits of the current recovery have been widely shared where it has stuck. But it takes a while for people everywhere in the country to feel the benefits.”
“I would say two things: I would say, we can’t keep asserting that things are great in the economy. In some senses, they are great. But, first of all, we’re saddled with some cost of living challenges — which are not unique to the United States — but it’s pretty hard if you’re out there in the middle of the country and you’re working hard and you’ve got two or three kids and you have to watch every penny you make. And, secondly, the economic benefits of the current recovery have been widely shared where it has stuck. But it takes a while for people everywhere in the country to feel the benefits. People are not economic engines alone. There [are] a lot of identity conflicts racing through our society now and through our world, and these culture wars topics still have enormous salience. And we Democrats have to learn to talk to people.”
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