Friday, June 17, 2022

Stop Blaming Biden 

The Republicans love to bash Biden and there is certainly a lot to criticize, but I think that focusing on Biden is both an error in tactics and an error in fact. 

It is an error in tactics because someday Biden will be gone. If you concentrate on blaming Biden it implies that if you get rid of Biden you get rid of the problem. 

But it is, more importantly, an error in fact because the problem isn't the decisions that Biden is making it is the decisions he isn't making. What we are seeing with the Biden administration is not the mistakes of one man but the effect of ceding policy making to the permanent bureaucracy and the party apparatchiks. And the problem will attend any Democratic administration. 

It is important to focus not on Biden but on the policies of the Democratic Party and the permanent Bureaucracy. This is the government on auto pilot, and so it attends everything the government does. Laws are now passed that creates an agency which actually creates the law. What is coming out of the Biden administration is what the bureaucracy wants. 

The only way the gains from the upcoming Republican friendly election is the convince people that the republican policies are the right policies. Time spent ridiculing Biden is time not spent making policy arguments to the electorate. 


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