I’m not sure what your metric for “not getting the message”, but I’ll assume it’s something like approval ratings? Biden does in fact have a lower rating than most other recent presidents at the same point in their administrations, other than Trump, who was lower.
As for the reasons? If, for example, Biden’s economic recovery is truly as historically positive as it is (which it objectively is, by a certain set of narrow but useful metrics, as laid out in the article I previously posted), and if he has fulfilled a higher percentage of campaign promises than average, then why doesn’t it subjectively feel like it for the people?
I think there are many reasons why, including but not limited to:
a) the left is absolutely horrible at messaging,
b) the Democratic Party only has only the slimmest majority in the Senate, with two members who have handicapped Biden’s ability to pass the policies he wants to pass, which makes a great many on the left and middle to be disillusioned with Biden’s ability to fulfill his agenda.
c) our informational terrain is more polarized and fragmented and decentralized as ever, making it harder than ever for any message to get through.
d) an entire right-wing, hate-manufacturing media machine whose sole purpose is to flood the zone with propaganda in order to convince people like you to hate the left even more than you love the country (as demonstrated by Tucker Carlson’s sociopathic rants about supporting Putin and GOP candidates saying things like “I like Putin’s Christianity more than Biden’s Christianity”.)
e) inflation hurts, and even though the pandemic made it inevitable, it’s occurring globally, and there is no Biden policy that is responsible for causing it, it still creates “bad optics”.
f) Biden is just kinda boring. Which I actually like, dispositionally at least. But he’s too centrist for many on the left, and not exciting enough for the center.
g) propaganda works. And again, we are drowning in it. Partisan propaganda, foreign propaganda, corporate propaganda, and lunatic propaganda like Qanon.
I’m sure I’ll think of more to add soon.
Personally I hope he ends up being a morally decent, stable-enough single term president (in total contrast to Trump), and then we get some fresh blood running in 2024. We need to see a smart and savvy Gen X candidate who can help reclaim the political vanguard from the regressive woke, while also including the best qualities of green that have become distorted by the woke, as well as the best of orange and amber. But also someone strong enough to help us shake us out of our “zombie neoliberalism” and confront the worst excesses of the mean orange meme.