Joe Biden's first press conference as president this week was style over substance. He took advantage of softball questions from friendly media to run through a list of Democratic talking points. It was reminiscent of another president who infamously emphasized style over substance: Jimmy Carter. In fact, Biden's presidency is in many respects the modern reincarnation of Carter's.
Biden and Carter share many personality traits. They are both affable, noncontroversial, everyman politicians who rode widespread resentment toward their elected predecessors to the White House. Yet their parallels extend beyond just character and into the economic conditions during their presidencies. While Biden's term is only a few months old, it is shaping up to mirror the stagflation and high energy prices that Americans endured in the late-1970s under the 39th president.
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