By: Vivek Saxena
In one of his final interviews as president, Joe Biden had the audacity to insist that inflation is down and that “red states” have been screwing up their economies. “Red states really screwed up in terms of the way they handled their economy and the way they handled manufacturing and the way they handled access to supply chains,” he said during a taped interview this week with MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell. [Tweet, video] In reality, red states recovered much more quickly during COVID than their blue counterparts. In early 2024, ABC News reported that “[a]n examination of key economic measures — including job and income growth —