@aescling he’s running on the economy because it’s going to be a major issue in battleground states

@Lady @aescling also, calling it Bidenomics is an attempt to package a bunch of seemingly-disparate and dry policies as a single more comprehensible policy position that can then be more easily sold to the general public

@aescling @Lady i’m not terribly confident whether the repackaging is actually in any way helpful, i think often in issues of economy people care less about words and policy and more about the lived reality of the last 3 yrs

@Satsuma @aescling well in this case tho they’re also comparing it with a lived reality under Trump which many aren’t fond of either

@Satsuma @aescling one Jeep worker was very explicit like “if Trump was so great then why didn’t anything he did last”

@Lady @Satsuma love that class consiousness is becoming real again though

@Lady @aescling “they’re both bad” seems to result in low democratic turnout tho

@Satsuma @Lady the thing is, that’s an already existing term conservatives uuse as a pejorative to talk about the economy under biden, so like