NYT | Opinion On Thursday, January 20, 2022:
Source: nytimes.com By Ezekiel Kweku Politics Editor, Opinion President Biden’s candidacy had a very simple premise: It was time to get things back to normal. When he jumped into the race, what needed to go back to “normal” was American politics, which had been turned, in the eyes of many voters, into a 24/7 spectacle by the presidency of Donald Trump. By the time the general election campaign had begun, “normal” had grown to include the end of the pandemic, which Biden pledged to “shut down.” One year after he took office, argues Matthew Yglesias in a guest essay , the president has made surprising strides toward returning the country’s politics back to normal, passing a bipartisan infrastructure bill and making progress toward passing another bill to expand science funding and strengthen the supply chain. Democrats are frustrated with Biden’s inability to pass the sweeping reforms he proposed during the campaign, but for Yglesias, these are the normal kind of frustratio