What’s so interesting about all this, though, is that while this is, indeed, the product of politics, it’s the product of bad politics. I’m often asked these days who is “really” running the White House? Is it Barack Obama? Jill Biden? Kamala Harris. I think the answer is far more straightforward: The White House is being run by the broader progressive blob. …

Why, at this moment, is he launching a bizarre “National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia and Related Forms of Hate,” when everyone with eyes can see that we are in the midst of the worst bout of antisemitism in recent memory? Because the people around him want that stuff, that’s why. His staff want it. His donors want it. The loudest voices on the Internet want it. The people his aides see in the school parking lot want it. He’s been captured, and he’s too old and too craven to resist.

[Especially craven, but Biden has always been craven. He steals speeches, he lies about himself and his past, he hides behind the Uncle Joe persona while being one of the most corrosive demagogues in American politics. He’s a moral idiot and a political coward, and always has been. — Ed]