‘We gain the strength of the temptation we resist,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. Is it any wonder that President Biden now looks so weak?
As a presidential candidate, Biden promised to engage in a “battle for the soul of this nation.” As president, alas, he has surrendered each and every time he has been tested. Not once during his two-and-a-half-year tenure has he managed to stand firm in defense of his oath of office. Like Ado Annie Carnes, he is a guy who can’t say no. Into his office file the progressives, with their risible ideas and their self-serving claims, and, after a brief period of hemming and hawing, Biden either endorses their theories in outline, or, more often, does precisely what they want. Given the breadth and tone of his rhetoric, one might expect to see some examples of Biden manning the barricades. There are none. He caved on court-packing. He caved on the filibuster. He caved on the eviction moratorium and on the vaccine mandate and on student loans. This week, he’s refusing to rule out raising the debt limit without Congress. This is the guy who was supposed to save us from Donald Trump?
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