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    Doyle McManus: A lesson from Presidents Biden and Trump — the new normal is nonstop crises

    A poll published by the Economist this month included a finding that was striking yet unsurprising: Almost 7 in 10 Americans believe things in the country have spun out of control. That's a problem for President Joe Biden, who campaigned in 2020 offering a return to normalcy after four years of chaos under Donald Trump. Biden promised, in effect, to Make America Normal Again, but "normal" ...
    by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times May 14, 2024 3 minutes
    U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the first presidential debate against former Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University on September 29, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio.

    A poll published by the Economist this month included a finding that was striking yet unsurprising: Almost 7 in 10 Americans believe things in the country have spun out of control.

    That's a problem for President Joe Biden, who campaigned in 2020 offering a return to normalcy after four years of chaos under Donald Trump.

    , but "normal" never quite returned. The COVID-19 restrictions ended, but the ensuing recovery brought and rising mortgage rates. Wars broke out in Ukraine and Gaza; protests erupted on . And domestic politics remained bitterly polarized; the bipartisan unity Biden promised to engineer remained out of reach.

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