![]() ![]() ![]() Just prior to his exit, stage left, to Europe, the president thought he might be able to ram through the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. And errors don’t get any bigger than taking sides when a circular firing squad is forming. And with razor-thin majorities in the House and Senate, there just wasn’t any room for error or miscalculation. With polls showing Biden that the public was keen for most of the radicals’ agenda - including expanding Medicare, “free” community college, paid family leave, and a host of other spending initiatives - the president decided to go all in and take sides in the Democratic civil war.īut Biden forgot that, at its most basic, politics is a numbers game. ![]() Biden gambled that hitching his presidency to the radicals’ agenda to “transform” America would lead to Democratic government for a generation - similar to the 20-year period between 1960-1980 that saw the left ascendant and America brought to its knees by inflation, unemployment, and double-digit interest rates.īut for a sizable number of less radical, even moderate Democrats in Washington, the radicals’ spending plans and efforts to “transform” America’s social compact frightened them - as it would most sane, rational lawmakers. ![]()
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