Conventional wisdom has it that when the economy is growing, voters will reward incumbent politicians with a new mandate, and that overseeing a recessions is a quick route to the political wilderness.
In the US, a growing economy and huge public investment by President Joe Biden seemed to have little impact on both his and Vice-President Kamala Harris’s political survival. Ordinary people didn’t feel better off, and any growth was swallowed up by inflation.
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