While you make a good point about stimulus checks and welfare, I wonder if voters are going to much care about all of this come November 2024?Yuli Ban: It's why I say stimulus checks are inevitable.
Sure, he was dealt the bitchiest of bitch hands by Trump, but he allowed this to happen on his watch. Only way to save his approval rating is welfare.
We all collectively seem to have such short term memories. Also, as you point out, there is plenty of blame to spread around in a bipartisan fashion. At the end of the day, who is to say that voters will not conclude that getting out of Afghanistan was not such a bad thing, and admire Biden for having the guts to finally finish that extrication process?
Of course, those who most loudly complain that Biden is a wuss will also no doubt be complaining about the excessive size of government, the impact of deficit spending on inflation and/or higher taxes, etc.
There will also always be those that ignore Republican hypocrisy:
Trump Slams Biden for Doing What Trump Bragged About
by Sam Van Pykeren
August 16, 2021
https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2 ... ghanistan/
Introduction:
Yesterday, Rachel Maddow on MSNBC also revisited these and other comments by Trump, including one in which he predicted that the withdrawal of U.S. troops by the implementation of his (Trump's) policy of withdrawal would indeed result in the collapse of the Afghan government.(Mother Jones) As uncertainty consumes Afghanistan, Donald Trump is blaming Joe Biden for doing what Trump said he did.
“He ran out of Afghanistan instead of following the plan our Administration left for him,” the former president wrote in a statement Saturday. Then, barely 25 hours later, another statement from Trump: “Never would have happened if I were President!”
While we’ll never know exactly what a Trump administration-led withdrawal from Afghanistan will look like, we can make some educated guesses based on his words from barely a month ago. “I started the process, all the troops are coming home,” he told supporters at a rally in Wellington, Ohio in late June. “What are we going to say? We’ll stay for another 21 years, then we’ll stay for another 50. The whole thing is ridiculous.” And few months before that, in April of this year, Trump was clear about where he stood: “We can and should get out earlier…Getting out of Afghanistan is a wonderful and positive thing to do. I planned to withdraw on May 1st.” Trump’s former National Security Advisor even agrees, saying the former president “would’ve done essentially the same thing” as Biden.
So let me get this straight, the only president to be impeached twice is blaming Biden for a mess that Trump took credit for in front of supporters?
The rest of the Republican party seems to realize this too, seeing as the RNC wiped clean their webpage laying out Trump’s negotiations and work with the Taliban during his presidency.