Why Biden Can’t Embrace Covid Normality

As conditions change, the president can’t change with them.

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President Joe Biden removes his face mask as he arrives to deliver remarks on the administration’s coronavirus surge response at the White House in Washington, D.C., January 13, 2022.

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Joe Biden was the candidate of normality who hasn’t been able to deliver it, particularly on the pandemic.

This is not entirely his fault, obviously. He didn’t create the Delta and Omicron surges. Neither did he — or most anyone else — foresee that the vaccines wouldn’t prevent infections as advertised.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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