Biden Is a Captive of Progressives

They have the power and the purse strings in his party.

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President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the Pennsylvania Democratic Party’s third annual Independence Dinner in Philadelphia, Pa., October 28, 2022.

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President Biden will soon be reading a political autopsy written by people in his own party. That’s how bad the midterm elections look for the Democrats.

In 2021, in a long screed entitled “The Democrats Are Trying to Lose: How party leaders learned to stop worrying and love losing to GOP fascists,” David Sirota, a former senior adviser to Bernie Sanders, accused Biden of running a Vichy Democrat administration.

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John Fund

John Fund is National Review’s national-affairs reporter.

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