With Joe Biden about to leave the White House, his approval rating among voters is unusually dire.
For a man who aspired to be president of the United States ever since he was a teenager, he can't be especially pleased with his four years in office.
For a politician who was defined early in his career for his vigour and capacity to talk, by the time he became president those gifts had faded. It's no wonder that Biden invoked the COVID-19 response so many times in last year's presidential debate. A contributing factor was Biden's massive post-COVID stimulus spending, but most of the price rises were out of Biden's hands.
Biden had cause to be irritated with how he was treated in the aftermath. The withdrawal of US troops had been negotiated between Donald Trump and the Taliban, and Biden had to honour the agreement. After years of profound instability in the Middle East, Hamas began a war that Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu was more than willing to fight.And Biden found himself in the middle between a majority of Americans backing Israel, and a very vocal minority opposing them.
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