Loved Kinzinger. He is such a tremendous leader.

Maybe I missed it, but I have been sort of miffed that in all of these conversations about what the Dems got wrong in 2024, I don’t recall hearing any Democrat outline (or Bulwark contributor?) outline the numerous Biden Admin policy errors. Bad policy leads to bad outcomes which leads to bad politics. It seems pretty easy math to me. What were the policy mistakes?

• The American Rescue Plan which did not on its own cause inflation but made it worse probably by 3%-4%. That followed by the pursuit of BBB instead of fiscal policy that worked in tandem the Fed’s monetary policy to stem inflation. The Fed was the sole body trying to curb inflation which meant more rate hikes and a more difficult economic environment. Can Dems simply know acknowledge the ARP was a mistake and massive gov’t spending is not the way to economic growth?

• Getting rid of Remain in Mexico with nothing to take it’s place.

• Abandoning Afghanistan (Biden’s general warned against it) and reversing the Max Pressure campaign on Iran

• Keeping Trump’s tariffs

• Illegal student loan forgiveness

These were major policy errors which led to bad outcomes and a bad political environment for Dems. What am I missing? I’m Ron Burgundy?