Can Joe Biden succeed where Barack Obama failed?
Can Joe Biden succeed where Barack Obama failed?
- January 18, 2021
- Bernie Grofman, poli sci, Newsweek, Jan. 18, 2021
"We would not have Trump as president if the Democrats had remained the party of the working class," University of California-Irvine professor Bernard Grofman recently told the New York Times. "[Obama] responded to the housing crisis with bailouts of the lenders and interlinked financial institutions, not of the folks losing their homes. And the stagnation of wages and income for the middle and bottom of the income distribution continued under Obama."
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