The problem for Democrats and Biden is they listen too much to the loudest liberal activist voices in the party and ignore the people who put them in office.
There is scant evidence that Mark Twain’s friend, banker-industrialist John Garth, used his wealth and power to demean those who worked for him. The same cannot be said of today’s cultural curators.
Will the curators continue to underestimate and insult the electorate? It will be about their lives, their children, their communities, and their futures.
The MLB made a big deal of moving the All-Star Game in the Spring to punish Georgia for its election reforms. Now that the Braves are in the World Series, not a peep. Fans are noticing.
Since they were sworn in, in January, Democrats have behaved as though voters gave them a mandate to do whatever they wanted. Except there was no mandate.
The media have moved the conversation off the front pages. But what happened and continues to happen in Afghanistan has left a mark on the American psyche.
Biden has shown stubborn purpose in making the withdrawal from Afghanistan, whatever the circumstances. He has been equally purposeful in showing no responsibility for conditions at the border.
Everywhere you look, our disconnect between the outside and our centers of power is both wide and deep; it is clear this will affect the party in power.
The Hustead family has done what Alexis de Tocqueville admired about the essence of Americanism: the drive to form associations over a shared aspiration.
Generous federal unemployment benefits funded by Biden's American Rescue Plan currently give people $300 per week. Add that to state benefits and the motivation for workers to stay home is real.