‘There have been so many accomplishments under this administration, it can be difficult to list them in a distilled way.’ So said Pete Buttigieg, America’s Transportation Secretary, last weekend, when asked why Americans don’t share the White House’s sense that President Joe Biden is doing a brilliant job.
Well, in his second State of the Union address on Tuesday, Biden attempted that laborious exercise in success distillation.

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