He built the Wall, funded the police, drilled for oil, and screwed the Iranians. Also: The left hates him. So why do people think he's a radical progressive?
Get with the program, Jack. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
1. Based Joe Biden
I was listening to Ruy Teixeira on The Focus Group over the weekend—it was a great show—and came away somewhat confused. On the one hand, Ruy is inarguably correct that non-college voters continue to realign toward Republicans and that this is the biggest electoral challenge for Democrats.¹ If Republicans keep gaining with non-college voters, they’re going to win elections. Probably.²
What I’m not sure I understand is Ruy’s explanation for why Republicans are doing better among non-college voters.
Ruy tends to blame Democratic declines with non-college voters on the excesses of “the Left.” And that’s fine so far as it goes—it’s a big country and there are a lot of excesses. You don’t have to look hard to find examples on Twitter/Threads of libs who favor some combination of:
Decriminalizing illegal immigration
Defunding the police
Banning fossil fuels
Supporting Hamas (or being anti-anti-Hamas)
Transgender integration in youth sports
But then we start getting into a philosophical debate over the nature of things.
Because Joe Biden is the president of the United States and the leader of the Democratic party and he has . . . not governed in any of those ways. Here are some actual policies Biden has enacted in the real world during his administration:...
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