Biden Emerges as Progressive Government's Mr. Bad Example
A bit of humility about what Washington could achieve would have served the president well.
The only thing worse than the President's approval rating is that of his vice president, Kamala Harris, whom it's reported the Biden team accuse of dysfunction and a lack of focus. Images: AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly
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Say what you will, but Joe Biden's first year in office has one crowning achievement to its name. It has provided a real-time, data-rich, high-intensity and ultimately devastating case study in the defining conceit of progressive politics: the idea that government is the solution.
Mr. Biden laid out this persistent delusion of all true-left believers when he gave a prime-time television address to the nation in March, on the first anniversary of the Covid lockdowns.