But it’s his own Democratic constituencies — teachers unions, local governments, ultra-leftist Trump haters who refuse to let go of the culture war over the virus — who would continue to hold the country hostage to what now is a manageable public health risk. In Montgomery County, a group of parents and teachers who want to close the schools issued a call this week for children to stay home in protest.

Biden needs to take these people on and steer his party toward a more sensible course.

Often, presidents and their aides get sucked into the 24-hour maelstrom of running the country, and they forget why we hired them in the first place.

Biden isn’t president because we expected him to eradicate covid. He’s president because he promised a return to normalcy.

He spent most of his first year pretending to be the second coming of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and if he’s not careful, he’ll spend most of the second presiding over a new wave of lockdowns that will destroy his party.