The problem with Biden's 'legacy' and Trump's 'mandate'
Two fuzzy concepts that obscure more than they reveal
President Joe Biden and his predecessor/successor Donald Trump are being analyzed through the lens of two shopworn words: legacy and mandate.
They are terms that pundits are especially prone to use, perhaps because they are so ill-defined.
Biden blew up his legacy, the argument goes, with the pa…
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