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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Joe Biden gets mugged by events

by Hugo Gurdon, Editor-in-Chief 

 

May 13, 2021 11:00 PM

Harold Macmillan, a British prime minister of the 1950s and ’60s, was reputedly asked what made his job most difficult, and he replied, “Events, my dear boy, events.” This echoed his wartime boss, Winston Churchill, who once commented that he governed against “the opposition of events.”

Having a quiver full of plans, even unworkable and damaging ones, as so many Democratic plans are, is the easy part of governing. A much tougher test is how you handle unforeseen difficulties as they arise, whether they come from third parties beyond one’s control or flow naturally from one’s own utopianism and incompetence. Joe Biden is suddenly getting a dose of both.

Arguably, he cannot be blamed for the decision of Hamas terrorists to foment violence against Israel on a false pretext and then launch murderous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians. Yet even here, Biden is arguably culpable. He reversed President Donald Trump’s policies in the region, not merely by sucking up to Iran as had his mentor, President Barack Obama, but also by snubbing America’s staunchest ally, Israel. Seeing this, Hamas probably calculated that it had new latitude to torment the Jewish state.

Either way, Biden, who trumpets the idea that “America is back” because he’s in charge, faces a Middle East war where there’d been quiet and nearly unprecedented amity during the past four years. How he responds will test the mettle of his dubious leadership, and, as we argue in our editorial, he could usefully start by setting straight the jackals in his own party.

Other unwelcome events that are crowding in on Biden come from closer to home and are indubitably of his own making. Inflation spiked to 4.2% in April, adding to mountainous evidence that Biden’s multitrillion-dollar spending spree and the Federal Reserve’s zero interest rates have banked up a monetary fire that will incinerate the wealth of savers and make everything more expensive for everyone. A chunk of his spending was cash stuffed into the pockets of Americans so long as they didn’t work. By incentivizing sloth, Biden stanched job creation and stoked unemployment.

On top of all this, Biden has notoriously presided over three successive months of record incursions across our southern border by illegal immigrants. Almost all the arrivals are dispersed into the U.S. interior and have disappeared from view. But Team Biden refuses to call it a crisis.

So, the honeymoon glow of Biden’s first 3-4 months has faded. That won’t stop his praetorian media from lionizing him and swooning over his “bold” plans, but it will make the public skeptical of the new incumbent. The COVID pandemic is over, as Timothy Carney argues, but that is likely to make Biden’s task of controlling his inflation blaze even harder. The entire country, flush with saved cash, is emerging into the sunlight of a post-pandemic spring, ready to spend like sailors after they’ve survived an arduous voyage, taking their first few steps of shore leave.

Like other things, events happen!

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