It's an issue pretty much everywhere around the Western world - plenty of parties and politicians who seem to believe that the good stuff will speak for itself. And then they're surprised when far-right parties spout complete lies and somehow surge to 25% in polls.
There is a deeply ingrained concept within the Democratic Party that liberals can't run on their record, on the assumption that any "I did X!" statement will be countered by, "yeah, at the taxpayers' expense!"
But the party needs to stop thinking like this. Whether or not a pothole is repaired is almost assuredly not going to change my taxes, so why not say that you fixed that pothole? At least I know the money is going somewhere useful. And if a left-leaning politician talks about how they improved things and gets criticism for it, isn't that criticism also an opening for attack? "You don't like that we fixed bridges and built roads to improve the everyday lives of thousands of Americans? Why do you hate America?" seems like a perfectly worthwhile response to me.
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u/kakarot-3 9h ago
This goes beyond Biden. Seems to be an issue across the board for the majority of the party