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The Democrats’ Sardonic ‘Good News, Bad News’ ’Joke’

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The Democrats’ Sardonic ‘Good News, Bad News’ ’Joke’
Left: Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks at a Bernie 2020 rally at the Stifel Theater in downtown St. Louis, Mo., on March 9, 2020. (Tim Vizer/AFP via Getty Images) Right: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks to supporters during a campaign stop at Berston Field House in Flint, Mich., on March 9, 2020. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
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You are undoubtedly familiar with the “good news, bad news” joke format: The good news cheers you up, then the bad news takes away all the gains from the good news and usually makes it worse.

Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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