Democrats need to back Biden more loudly on Ukraine

Why oh why?

For the life of me I don’t understand why Dems aren’t falling over themselves to praise how Biden has handled things and express immense relief that he, rather than a fully compromised Trump, is leading the global response, but this delusional nonsense is what’s filling the void. https://t.co/0qBkAF2tRK

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) February 28, 2022

It's a good question. Democrats generally seem less inclined than Republicans to loudly boast about what they've done, and I've always ascribed this partly to a lack of conviction: They're afraid of committing themselves for fear that things might go sour later on and they'll look stupid.

As Brian says, we pay a price for this. We haven't boasted much about the stimulus bill getting the economy back on track, so the void has been filled by conservatives and the media going crazy about inflation. Everyone stayed quiet about the Afghanistan withdrawal, so the void was filled with nonstop coverage of "chaos" and bad planning. Right now, Dems are mostly fairly quiet about Biden's rather remarkable diplomatic successes over Ukraine—which are fairly subtle and need explaining—so the void is filled with Fox News talking heads claiming that Biden is "weak" and Putin isn't afraid of him.

I dunno. I've never understood this. Am I wrong about Democrats' aversion to boasting about what they (or their president) have done? Are they talking a lot and I'm just not hearing it? Or what?