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Biden Needs an Enemy

Can the president change the narrative and save democracy again?
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Less than a year ago, America was led by a man who governed to please and toyed with the idea of . After Donald Trump, you’d think the American people would just enjoy having a normal president who doesn’t use his Twitter account to threaten or . But they don’t. Take one look at national polling numbers and you’ll see that Americans are unhappy with Joe Biden: According to , 51.7 percent of Americans disapprove of his job performance. A recent Quinnipiac University poll showed that disapprove of Biden’s handling of the pandemic and of his handling of

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