As little as a few weeks ago, the Democrat Party handlers who engineered the election of the 46th U.S. president were likely still celebrating their historic accomplishment. Having created a candidate who appeared to the outside world as a kindly and thoughtful moderate, all the while masking secret concessions to the likes of socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, these political operatives believed themselves on the verge of finally enacting much of their far-left agenda.
Forward to the present, and the ongoing Afghanistan fiasco has so dramatically shaken many Democrats’ faith in President Biden’s competence -- and, by extension, in the viability of their party’s agenda -- that nothing any longer seems politically certain. Even NPR, CNN, and other generally liberal media outlets concede that the newly weakened White House will have a much harder time marshalling the congressional votes need to pass a $3.5 trillion “social infrastructure” plan.
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