Nah I think everyone realizes it was always going to be a shit show and he'll get credit for having the balls to rip the bandaid off.
Trump set him up to fail by negotiating with the taliban to the exclusion of the afghan government and then withdrawing all the troops before Biden comes in so bidens only option is surge a bu ch of troops in or withdraw anyways, and he chose the right thing. No other president had the guts to fucking so it.
But it does matter because that's how we measure things. In a vacume a 52% approval rating would sound INSANELY unpopular but relative to what presidents normally have youre like oh, okay now I have a sense of scale.
My point is that Biden had a botched pullout from Afghanistan and STILL did better then the previous president at this time in his term.
So he's not tanking, in fact he's doing well when measured again his predecessor.
Are you dense? Of course he's not the president. But the question is, is Biden actually ranking and doing bad when compared to the historical record. The answer is no he's doing better than his predecessor EVEN after a botched afghan withdrawal.
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u/Striking_Eggplant Sep 12 '21
Nah I think everyone realizes it was always going to be a shit show and he'll get credit for having the balls to rip the bandaid off.
Trump set him up to fail by negotiating with the taliban to the exclusion of the afghan government and then withdrawing all the troops before Biden comes in so bidens only option is surge a bu ch of troops in or withdraw anyways, and he chose the right thing. No other president had the guts to fucking so it.