Biden’s Tenuous Hold on Our Political Imagination
America can enjoy settling down, but if the Democrats are going to be contenders in the deciding round, they are going to have to do much better than they have done in the last 50 days.
By Conrad Black
March 15, 2021
As we ease into the second half of the new administration’s much-touted “First 100 Daysâ€â€”the comforting New Deal expression of nearly 90 years ago reassuring us that Joe Biden is a traditional Democrat and not a tailgating born-again radical who actually believes such political illusions as America’s “systemic racism†or the “existential crisis†of climate change or the “white supremacist†assault on the Capitol on January 6—I do not unsay any of the skeptical words I’ve written about the prospects of this administration. Biden’s election has been tainted by illegalities on a scale never surpassed in the history of the United States, by a level of intellectual corruption not equaled by the national political media before, and by a vote-counting process more thoroughly compromised than any in the country’s history with the possible exception of 1876 (which was ultimately resolved by the candidates).
With that bracing caveat, some positive developments can be discerned.
Despite what he obviously considers to be the obligatory lip service and virtue signaling to his peppier supporters, and the geriatric pleasure he takes in being “the most progressive U.S. president in history,†Biden does manage to convey the impression that he actually likes the United States more than the Obamas did. There was about them always the suspicion that the Barack Obama who cheerfully wasted $100 million of Walter Annenberg’s money with Bill Ayers teaching Marxism to black Chicago elementary school students, and the Michelle Obama who avowed that the first pride she felt in her country was when the Democrats nominated her husband for president, spent a part of each day in the official residence contemplating in astonishment their elevation by a country they chiefly liked for how they thought they might be able to transform it.
Joe Biden’s America is the one that was revived from the depths of economic and psychological depression by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s programs of reforming the existing system, and that led the Western allies in World War II.
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