Source: Washington Post
by George F Will
“Joe Biden’s failed presidency is ending with a blizzard of decisions that validate voters’ rejection of his vice president, who, when asked, could not think of a flaw in his record. He and she pretended, from opposite directions, to be what they are not. He won his party’s 2020 nomination by defeating aggressively progressive senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Then, perhaps because aging had already rendered him pliable, some handlers convinced him he should be another Franklin D. Roosevelt. Governing as a synthetic New Dealer, he doomed his vice president, who ran as a synthetic centrist unable to outrun her authentic progressivism. Two months into his presidency, the seeds of its ruin were sown with the American Rescue Plan, which pumped up demand for goods and services beyond the capacity of the economy to produce them.” (01/15/25)