Syndicated columnist Michael Barone: 2022 was a year full of surprises. Important things didn't work out as many people had expected on just about every point on the political spectrum.
2022 was a year full of surprises. Important things didn't work out as many people had expected on just about every point on the political spectrum.
The Biden administration, to its credit, adjusted to the unexpected reality and provided Ukraine with vital military and economic aid. This week, Zelenskyy is visiting Washington voluntarily, not as an exile. And it is Putin who is describing his side's position in Ukraine as"extremely difficult." by signing up you agree to our terms of service A second surprise of 2022 has been the decline of China. It wasn't so long ago that sophisticated soothsayers predicted its economy would soon be larger than America's and that its centralized and admittedly authoritarian experts were showing the way to plan for the future.
It shouldn't have been unexpected that China's lockdowns wreaked enormous economic damage. Here in the U.S., similarly, the harshest lockdowns and masking requirements inflicted self-harm on liberal-run institutions such as unionized public schools and central-city mass transit systems. A third surprise this year is that massive transfers of trillions of dollars, initiated by the Trump administration and vastly increased by Biden Democrats, have not restored the low-inflation economy with growth tilted toward the low-skill -- and low-income was chugging along nicely in the Trump years up until February 2020.
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