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Biden Administration’s Intelligent and Soft-Spoken Approach is Not Working

By all reports, President Biden’s approval rating is under water. Are we conditioned by the GOP to expect political theatrics, grandiose lies, and demonstrative speechifying to catch our attention?

Libby Winkler
4 min readMay 9, 2023
Photo by John Wayne Hill on Unsplash

The last administration was characterized by ridiculous claims, outright lies, and xenophobic fear-mongering.

Have we been conditioned to expect this as ‘normal?’ We expect the gradiosity and lies and when deprived of this tone, we feel something is missing.

We suck. We are idiots.

This current administration is taking a far different approach — a soft-spoken, dignified, and evidence-based one. We are being presented with facts, science-backed data and rational thought. Yet still the president’s approval rating continues to suffer.

Why?

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Libby Winkler
Libby Winkler

Written by Libby Winkler

Freelance writer who loves exploring the messiness of humanity, while poking around in nooks of life and shining light on all the things that make us complex..

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