We cats are not unbridled fans of Susan Glasser at The New Yorker, and think less of her husband, New York Times reporter Peter Baker.
In the words of Soledad O'Brien, who has little patience for journalism that fails, "Peter Baker is extremely good at 'both-sidesing' stuff." We agree. Both Glasser and Baker have trod lightly around Trump World to preserve their access, a la, but not quite as badly as, Maggie Haberman.
Now, though, Glasser has suddenly discovered that the Biden Administration has had a pretty good 2022, and she's amazed.
"Biden’s rebound [from 2021] is a marker, it seems to me, not only of a President whose great skill is persistence in the face of adversity but of a leader whose foes have underestimated him — and the fractious country he heads — at great cost to themselves.
"Both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump seem to have made the mistake of believing their own propaganda. They did not see Biden as the formidable opponent he has proved to be. The American President, aided by the catastrophic overreach of their attacks on democracies at home and abroad, brought something that turned out to be incalculably valuable to the fight: clarity."
Glasser is talking about the preservation of democracy, both here at home and abroad, which Biden has championed in speech after speech. But she also could have mentioned that, at the same time, the Administration never took its eye off the ball of accomplishing things for the American people. Inflation reduction, student debt relief, safeguarding marriage equality and reproductive healthcare, low unemployment, the PACT Act, and taking out Ayman al-Zawahiri are just a few of Biden-Harris's accomplishments in 2022.
It's been a historic Year Two. We cats celebrate, and we PURR.
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