No one at the White House seems to have noticed the jarring, continent-sized disparity between the president’s goals and his vice president’s competence. One can only imagine the scene earlier this year, when Biden, reviewing the deteriorating situation along the Rio Grande, turned to his second-in-command and said: Heck of a job, Kamala. Now go figure out this AI thing.

No matter how long the unfinished to-do list, no matter the evidence of public sector failure, Biden, Harris, and the Progressives in the executive branch press on, searching for additional causes to adopt, and exploring novel ways to intervene in America’s economic, social, and cultural life. Consider the efforts of Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, who on May 2 declared that “loneliness and isolation” is an “epidemic,” an “underappreciated public health crisis that has harmed individual and social health.” …

Having made a hash of the border, reintroduced inflation into the economy, allowed the Taliban to reconquer Afghanistan, and excused and catered to the organizations responsible for the greatest learning loss in American history, Biden and his team look to the horizon, toward future exercises in ineptitude.

[The presidency offers nearly unlimited opportunities for failure. That’s why we should refrain from elected incompetents to the job. — Ed]