the missing birth certificate case. that is what stopped the steele was all about. it is about taking something that has been established as true, denying it and the power of that denial moves your movement closer. and now that movement has taken over the republican party, which is why the democratic party and republican party no longer resemble each other. that s why we have such an asymmetry in our politics, which screws around with a lot of other values, norms and practices which no longer make sense, because the two parties operate in such a different way. i will add one other thing, rachel. underneath the history that you gave us, there was the rise of the american consensus, as historians call, it the postwar consensus. where the two parties roughly worked in the same way, and they had different values, they wanted to take the country in different directions, but kind of agreed on basic facts.
unfold in the next couple of years. and the inflation reduction act, as it begins to bring down drug prices starting next year, more significantly, the first with insulin, but other things start next year. same thing with a lot of the tax credits for new, sustainable energy developments. so we have already seen billions and billions of dollars to create manufacturing jobs in america thanks to laws that the president passed. we will make things in america again for the first time in a generation. we see tremendous progress already with employment, biden created more jobs for two years in any more years than in american history. we ve got the unemployment rate down to 3%, black unemployment its lowest it s been in history and 5%. made progress, is more work to be done on things like guns, voting rights, climate change and the economy. i think that will create a powerful agenda for a second biden term. ron, in terms of the overall atmosphere in the country, the health of our democracy,
on how he can best capitalize on those? i agree i think the president s accomplishments these first two years will be a big part of his message but he won t just run to get a pat on the back. he will run because he has work left to do we made tremendous progress on the economy but there s still more to be done. we need to further tame inflation and accelerate economic growth and need to take some laws the president passed and actually implement the infrastructure law and build bridges and roads and new airports around the country. we passed the c.h.i.p.s. bill to create high-tech manufacturing jobs all over america. that s going to unfold in the next couple of years and the inflation reduction act begins to bring down drug prices starting next year more significantly, the first step on insulin this year but other things start next year the same thing with a lot of tax credits for new sustainable energy developments and so you re going to see we ve already seen companies commit bill
create high-tech manufacturing jobs all over america. that s going to unfold in the next couple of years and the inflation reduction act begins to bring down drug prices starting next year more significantly, the first step on insulin this year but other things start next year the same thing with a lot of tax credits for new sustainable energy developments and so you re going to see we ve already seen companies commit billions and billions to create manufacturing jobs in america thanks to the laws the president passed we re going to make things in america again for the first time in a generation. we re seeing tremendous progress on employment. he created more jobs his first two years than anyone in history. so we ve made a lot of progress. there is s more work to be done on things like guns and voting rights, climate change and the economy. and that i think will create a powerful agenda for a second biden term ron, in terms of the overall atmosphere in the country, in