Chris Hayes on How Biden Can Have a Better 2022
About this episode
Returning from paternity leave, Klein asks MSNBC host Chris Hayes to catch him up on inflation, Covid, and the Republican Party. They probe the disconnect between strong economic numbers and public pessimism — inflation's psychological bite, pandemic dislocation, and 'gas pump' economics — and debate why popular Biden policies like the child tax credit haven't paid political dividends. They discuss liberalism's complicated relationship with 'stuff': the need to build housing and clean energy while facing local and environmental opposition, and the three core costs — housing, health care, college — that define middle-class life. They cover Build Back Better's Joe Manchin problem, the bleak outlook for voting-rights legislation, Trump's grip on the GOP, and the attention economy: how Republicans learned from Trump that commanding attention wins elections.