President Joe Biden delivered his first State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night. The speech came at a moment when the state of the union hasn’t been this bad since President Jimmy Carter delivered his last State of the Union address in January 1980.
At that time, America was dealing with the Iranian hostage crisis, suffocating inflation, energy shortages, and the uncertain feeling of malaise in the air. The Soviet Union had also just invaded Afghanistan the previous month. It seems that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
In fact, Biden’s speech and Carter’s remarks more than four decades ago could almost be used interchangeably.
On that note, here are my five takeaways from Joe Biden’s weak and ineffective first State of the Union address.
