Monday, September 27, 2021

The Progressives [i.e.: Radicals] Have Already Won. (Partially Because Biden Is Now One Of Them)

Hey, remember how I yammered ceaselessly before the election about how A Biden victory would be a progressive/radical victory? Because Biden didn't have it in him to oppose them? 
I sure do hate being right all the time:
The president’s gesture of support underscored the political reality that is driving the tense negotiations on Capitol Hill: In the battle for ideological supremacy in the Democratic Party, the progressives have already won. Biden was indeed a proud moderate during his three and a half decades as a senator, but he has fallen in firmly with the progressives as president. He’s embraced the agenda championed by the likes of his former rivals Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren—tackling climate change; creating a new child-care tax credit; expanding the government’s role in health care; endorsing universal pre-K, free community college, and paid family leave—and made it his own. The moderates in the House and Senate are balking at the size and scope of Biden’s plan, and, still, the president is siding with the progressives.
   I understand not being able to vote for Trump--even being compelled to vote against him. But it was the wrong decision. Trump was an embarrassing pain-in-the-ass who was, policy-wise, a good president. In fact, a really good one. His policies made the country's future brighter. Biden has harmed the country immeasurably already. And he might just wreck it. As I noted pre-election: it wasn't Trump v. Biden, it was Trump v. the Woketarian cult. And Biden was going to simply be a catspaw of the latter. He's nearly a seamless conduit for their crazy. 
   I would have been extremely happy to have been wrong about this.

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