Joe Biden is facing simultaneous challenges.
- The collapse of Afghanistan in place of a “decent interval”;
- The resurgence of the Covid Delta variant in place of the anticipated reopening of society;
- Looming inflation and economic problems in place of the anticipated boom.
- The unending border crisis.
It’s a dramatic reversal of fortune on all fronts. Biden failed to anticipate either the events or their speed an intensity and there is little to suggest he can handle the second order crises that is coming in its wake.
Reality has gotten inside Joe’s OODA loop.
The collapse came gradually then all of a sudden as the fantasy world of the Narrative cracked slowly then catastrophically. Now the question is: where can the Left hold the line?
The main lesson of the Cuomo affair was the media could sell the public a pig in a poke, and lo! out comes a scrawny chicken. The trouble was they bought their own dishonest sales pitch.
After years of telling us that giant muscular men are women and pathological governors are feminist icons we may belatedly learn that btw, the 2020 restoration platform was equally fictional.