Biden’s Trump-like fabrication on Covid
He is staking his legacy on the lie that the pandemic was out of control until the day of his inauguration.
Gerard Baker
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Obama + Springsteen? When did art get so establishment?
Cultural rebellion is dead. Today’s musicians, writers and actors are totally obsessed with the consensus nostrums of the ruling classes.
US cancel culture is becoming absurd
If you’re triggered by a benign act of Abraham Lincoln from almost 200 years ago, or a line from a Robert Louis Stevenson poem causes ‘hurt’, perhaps the problem is you.
Trump’s trial a bear trap for Republicans
Trump won’t be convicted but his party’s senators are damned if they support him and damned if they don’t. They want him gone but they don’t want to be held responsible for what comes next.
Biden risks squandering chance to heal
The new President’s implication Trump supporters are to blame for all the division is as dangerous as it is flawed.
As much to learn from Trump’s success as his disgrace
Responsible leaders made his election possible by creating a vacuum that a demagogue could fill.
Conservatives need a dose of moral clarity
Yes, the left does bad things too but Conservatives are supposed to believe in objective moral truth.
A spectacle of dishonesty and opportunism
The GOP election challenge marks a new low-water mark for political cynicism.
White House gets the Biden touch but it’s just window dressing
Pete Buttigieg is gifted but his selection for a job for which he has no experience or talent reflects the Democratic Party’s identity obsession.
The bipartisan moral rot of US institutions
Media discover the Hunter Biden story, and the GOP falls in line with Trump’s futile election challenge.
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