Looking back, there is little doubt that the Biden team and congressional Democratic leaders made the wrong choice at almost every point in this new presidency, starting on Day One by canceling the Keystone XL pipeline to placate Democrats’ strident progressive wing.

In July, Biden, who called defeating the coronavirus job one, declared victory over COVID-19 only to see the delta variant emerge and the number of deaths on his watch surpass the numbers under Donald Trump, with another variant now in the headlines. His vaccine mandates and masking policies have only divided the country further and worse.

His team, apparently, gave little or no thought to the impact of COVID-19 on the supply chain and its ramifications on economic growth and consumer concerns.

Economic relief dollars were pumped into the economy as new, intrusive regulations put the brakes on growth, but not on inflation. Biden and Speaker Nancy Pelosi then decided to tie passage of the infrastructure bill to their Build Back Better legislation, another bad choice.

And then there was Afghanistan.