In the last week Biden has moved to the right in two policy areas, obviously to undercut Republican charges that he is soft on crime and doesn’t care about the price of gas. First he signed a bill to overturn Washington D.C.’s changes in the criminal code, a bill supported by almost all Republicans and not many Democrats. Then he announced that we would explore for oil in the largest unbroken wilderness in Alaska.
This is discouraging for two reasons: first, that he is caving to the right on crime and climate change, but secondly, and even more discouraging, he is caving because a majority of Americans are fearful of crime and don’t give a damn about climate change.
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