by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I was listening to a podcast recently that had the well-respected op-ed columnist George Will on it talking about his ambivalence about the course of the Biden Administration. Will, a very traditional conservative, bemoaned what he felt was Biden’s banking Left once he was in office.
I struggle with any scenario where Biden didn’t do just that because he felt he needed to “dance with the one who brung him” as the old saying goes. I can only assume that Biden made a strategic political decision that MAGA was a lost cause and, as such, he wrote the entire Right off.
As such, it’s not like Will had gotten his way and Biden was a real centrist that anyone on the Right would have noticed outside of a sliver of the Right that isn’t MAGA. If Biden had tried to be a Statesman and governed straight down the middle, all that would happened is MAGA would have ignored it and the progressive base of the Democratic Party would have freaked the fuck out.
So, yes, on paper it would have been great if Biden had governed, essentially as a #NeverTrumper….that just wasn’t practical for him. The vast majority of the conservative movement is a lost cause and no amount of governing from the middle would have changed that.
