My latest at PJMedia VIP. In late 2021 Joe Biden told the UN: “as I stand here today, for the first time in 20 years the United States is not at war.” Then it began to fall apart.
A Reversal of Fortune
Nine months into his first term in 2021 an elated Joe Biden told the UN: “as I stand here today, for the first time in 20 years the United States is not at war. We’ve turned the page.” Biden had just pulled out of Afghanistan. All seemed good. Although the big news was still Covid which precipitated a global chip crisis, an energy crunch and a worldwide supply crisis the pandemic was expected to fall before the new vaccines. The expectation was that the world economy would soon recover. There were murmurs about migrants flooding across the US-Mexico border but the media played it down. So in this sunny interlude Joe’s priority was pledging $11B toward fixing the Climate Emergency, the existential challenge of the progressive age.