Subject: Re: 14.3 Million Jobs in 35 Months
Fox "News" would never stop talking about it if Orange Jesus was in office. There would literally be 24-hour coverage

True. And there's a reason why left-leaning media isn't doing the same thing.

The data you cite are conventional measures of economic success. But the progressive theory of the economy is that it is broken - rigged against the ordinary person, unfair to the little guy, and riven through with inequality of outcome and opportunity. Conventional economic success (job growth and low unemployment) does nothing to address these deep, fundamental flaws with capitalism.

At the end of the day, "Bidenomics" represents the sort of status quo economy that progressives have criticized for years. Progressives wanted big, bold changes to the core structure of the economy. Many efforts in that direction were originally included in the various big bills in the first congressional term (when Democrats controlled the House), but nearly all of them got stripped out. The combined Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Build Back Better Act (rebranded as the Inflation Reduction Act) ended up mostly being the kind of conventional economic stimulus measures you could see from any Democratic Administration (and not a few Republican ones) going back to the FDR days. There's nothing in those measures that wouldn't have been at home in a Clinton, or even a Carter, Administration.

The only area that the Administration really went all-in on progressive priorities was in climate change (the IRA ended up being more a Green bill than anything else). But because it's taken so long for any of that money to work its way into actual projects, and because progressives are so disappointed on so many other fronts with climate change, that hasn't made any of them happy - and it certainly hasn't translated into much positive media coverage for Biden.

Biden's delivered economic growth and a well-performing labor market that is mostly a continuation of the status quo, with some minor progressive tweaks - something that centrists will delight in, but few others will be enthusiastic about. Or draw much of a contrast with Trump, who similarly presided over a pretty good economy (by conventional measures) until Covid kicked in, but with lower interest rates and lower prices.