it comes but once a year for politics junkies, it is the christmas and new year s and arbor day and obscure state specific holiday you can t really remember the reason for rolled into one. it is state of the union night, and we are so happy that you re here with us for it. here s a live look at the u.s. capital tonight. members of both chambers of congress, guess, supreme court justices, cabot secretaries, admirals, ambassadors, they re all gathering to hear this big heavy on the pomp and circumstance annual address the president of the united states. on the other end of pennsylvania avenue of the white house, we are watching for president biden to part from the white house for the capital. the is expected shortly. i am rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters. joined by my colleagues of chris hayes, joy reid, nicole wallace, alex wagner and ari melber. i also do mean it when i say thank you for being home with us. we know you had every choice in the world were to watch thi
Seem out of touch because inflation was high, and it s true, it s still high x came down. ex came down. i honestly don t think they had to look over their shoulder anymore. i think they could be very forthright about the economic record. there s a way in which the previous president was a nostalgia president, nostalgic for the 1950s, when people were women were in the kitchen and blacks had no civil rights. biden is also in nostalgia president. to your point, he s not faking. that he really does have in a lot of ways kind of a wistful nostalgia for the era in which she and sometimes in the worst way. he actually, and i think the other piece of it is that yet their member who biden is, and it s one of the reasons that he s been able to get these winds. biden is a white working class guy. he has money now, but he actually is what he sees. he was able to eat into trump s