Dear Dean Magazine: February 2024

M Y R O N J . C L I F T O N
.They strengthened consumer protections, eliminated
excess banking fees, and passed the strongest gun control
measures in a generation.
You see? The information superhighway is full of potholes
and trash and missing traffic signs that point the way to the
Biden-Harris success stories.
The Biden Harris team is historically consequential and
presently outstanding.
President Biden has consoled the nation after mass
shootings, and VP Harris deftly wooed, soothed, and won
the respect of global leaders as she visited numerous nations
to advance U.S. interests.
She also rallied international support for Ukraine, conducted
the highest-level tour of African nations, and spent months
visiting college campuses to extoll all of the above and more.
They successfully calibrated the federal government and
put it back on track to work toward advancing democracy,
preserving federal lands and Native lands, rebuilding
infrastructure, modernizing rural technology, eliminating
student debt, and restarted climate work.
The team, working with democrats across the big tent, got
record numbers of judges confirmed — including historic
numbers of women and Black women.
They have taken on science, healthcare, women’s and girls’
rights to abortion and access to pre and postnatal care,
Black women’s maternal health, and safety and protection
for immigrants.
The team has overseen the economic recovery pundits and
republicans said could not be done. There are more jobs,
lower unemployment, higher wages, and the lowest Black
unemployment ever -as the first term policies take hold in all
sectors, including the record-breaking stock market, lower
gas and oil prices, and stronger unions in major industries.
What could be better? Plenty, including the administration
and its surrogates actively and relentlessly tell the nation
what they’ve accomplished, how it matters to each person,
and what more can and will be done with a second
administration.
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