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November 20, 2023 at 6:00 p.m.
by John M. Crisp / Tribune Content Agency
Inflation is slowing, the GDP is up, gas prices are down and last week The Associated Press reported a 14% drop in illegal border crossings in October. Yet my MAGA friends give President Joe Biden no credit.
Conversely, when these numbers go in the wrong direction, they blame Biden. In fact, they blame Biden for just about everything that goes wrong.
So, evidently, does conservative University of Toronto professor Jordan Peterson, who said on the Bill Maher show recently that "you could lay a fair bit of what happened in Israel on Biden's plate."
Peterson's rationale for blaming Biden? He has "more than a sneaking suspicion" that Biden wouldn't let Saudi Arabia into the Abraham Accords because "it would have meant giving Trump credit for something that happened during his term."
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Opinion: Whom should we blame for the war in Gaza? - Chattanooga Times Free Press