Biden's big blunder: Picking battles he's likely to lose

The Supreme Court had telegraphed that it did not think Biden had the authority to extend a CDC eviction moratorium without congressional action. Biden pursued that strategy anyway, and lost as expected. After that, he issued a sweeping OSHA mandate attempting to force all large employers to require vaccination or weekly testing and further tested justices who were likely to be skeptical. He lost that, too.

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It’s unclear why Biden would fly to Georgia this week to give a toxic speech that would convince nobody persuadable, get snubbed by Stacey Abrams, then pursue a voting-bill push that he knew had zero chance of success given stated opposition by Sinema and Manchin to breaking the filibuster. Why set himself up for certain humiliation?

There is an alternate timeline of Biden’s presidency in which passing $2.5 trillion in Covid relief, social-welfare, and infrastructure spending is seen as a decent success. But after the unrealistic expectations he set up of an FDR-sized presidency, those legislative accomplishments are barely remembered.

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