1.I don't know if its Biden or his handlers...remember that when Bloomberg, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, Yang etc bowed out, they threw support to Biden in return for some of their "planks" and advisers. A kind of moderate coalition.
2. Some of success fell in Biden’s lap…End of Covid, Ukraine’s success, soft-landing on recession, continuance of Trump missteps/hypocrisies.
3. Seems a kind of no brainer to buttress NATO, SEATO etc but isolationist/nationalist/Putin lovers were against. US has incredible alliances when it takes care of them. Q Elizabeth still on the money in countries all over the world, and the anglophile effect put us in a good strategic position.
4. US gets in these ill-advised Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan things, but it has a strong culture that eventually bails it out in spite of it all. IE Taliban pressured to educate women or West won't loan them $$, Biden may come out of Afghanistan looking good in a few years...w all this alliance/cultural power, why fight?
5. I suppose net import/export less important that "does deficit reflect good or bad investment?". After WW II we had tremendous deficit but soon paid down since it produced great tech, world leadership. The last 30 years we've mostly borrowed on a greed fest. Its good for Biden to stress infrastructure, clean energy, basic social safety net. Smart for him to move Taiwanese chip making facilities to Arizona, Chinese think they've cornered rare earths but whoops! US, Canada, Australia now in the game. I guess also smart people the world over are kinda naughty and gravitate West, there's that strong culture again!
6. WW II factories produced basic medical and retirement benefits for an integrated workforce containing all races, women, etc, promoted by a kind of Tin Pan Alley & Hollywood can-do. It seems our "kindly, yet no bullshit Capitalistic Democracy" stops short of European handouts, yet capable of great output when "sleeping giant" awakens.
7. Globalization elevated middle class worldwide, m.o.l. a great success, yet now that folks have tasted a better life they want more. I don't agree that US buying power has been reduced. With exception of medical, "real costs" have decreased, quality increased, min wages risen, more medical safety nets
8. Maybe "US demise greatly exaggerated", as Biden helped us fall back on powers we had all along. We have problems, but rest of the world even more and dollar still strong, for some reason we can still borrow like maniacs. Someday party will end but enjoy it for now.
9. Irony of my lifetime, that Republicans run up deficits and fight silly wars, while Dems lower deficits and create alliances that prevent silly wars. It wasn't supposed to work that way!
