Gap Between Ruling Elites and the People in the West Is Growing
White House Press Secretary from 2022 to 2025, Karine Jean-Pierre, published an article in The New York Times on October 2 in which she acknowledges that many of Biden’s advisers tried to make sense of the mismatch between the persuasiveness of the data they were presenting and the public’s falling trust. Colossal efforts were made to bridge this gap, various options were proposed, “but Americans didn’t feel it. Too many people were struggling with groceries prices, rent, child care, and gas; their lived experience did not match the reassuring economic news”.

