It’s interesting to me that the reaction is so unanimous
That should tell you that it's not some politicized reaction, it's the actual lived experience of the Average Joe. Go out on the street and ask people, and you'll get the same reaction. If humans are all unanimously telling you one thing, and your metrics say something else, is it more likely that the humans are all collaboratively lying, or that the metrics are wrong?
Also look at the main page; most stories have like 0 comments, or 3 or something, and then all the “Biden” or “economy” stories have a big bunch of comments, with pretty much the exact identical conversations going on in them
Right now on front page I see only 3 posts with 20+ comments, and none are about Biden or the economy:
Bing outage
Microplastic in balls
Scientist harassment
(actually, it looks like this comment pushed this post to 20 technically)