Joe Biden Is Fortunate In His Opponents

I hear House Republicans out on TV saying they would never vote to cut veterans’ benefits.

In case there’s any confusion, I made a little chart that could help them out. pic.twitter.com/SVvamK3KC2

— President Biden (@POTUS) May 2, 2023

Well, yeah, I guess he's just lucky.

"Biden’s biggest advantage has to do with the opposition — the Republican Party has gotten weird,” wrote Bouie. “I had this thought while watching a clip of Ron DeSantis speak from a lectern to an audience we can’t see. 

In the video, which his press team highlighted on Twitter, DeSantis decries the “woke mind virus,” which he calls “a form of cultural Marxism that tries to divide us based on identity politics.”

I like to think the advantage is the country’s:

Bouie went on: “To a normal person, … this language is borderline unintelligible. It doesn’t tell you anything; it doesn’t obviously mean anything; and it’s quite likely to be far afield of your interests and concerns.”

Because we aren’t all drinking the kool-aid.

Not only do Americans not care about the various Republican obsessions — in a recent Fox News poll 1 percent of respondents said “wokeness” was “the most important issue facing the country today” — but a large majority say that those obsessions have gone too far,” he wrote. 

“According to Fox, 60 percent of Americans said “book banning by school boards” was a major problem. Fifty-seven percent said the same for political attacks on families with transgender children. 

“And yet there’s no sign that Republicans will relent and shift focus. Just the opposite, in fact; the party is poised to lurch even further down the road of its alienating preoccupations. On abortion, for example, Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, says candidates need to address the issue “head on” in 2024 — that they can’t be “uncomfortable” on the issue and need to say “I’m proud to be pro-life.” 

“But the Republican Party has veered quite far from most Americans on abortion rights, and in a contested race for the presidential nomination, a “head-on” focus will possibly mean a fight over which candidate can claim the most draconian abortion views and policy aims.”

And we’ll all be asked why Joe Biden won’t negotiate. But I don’t think that’s going to be the question on voters’ minds.