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The crisis at the border and the stunningly swift defeat in Afghanistan are entirely on Biden.

It will be up to relatively moderate Democrats to decide whether the party goes all-in on fiscal radicalism.
It's not often a president of the United States admits he's affirmatively violating his sworn duty to uphold the Constitution.

The high-profile role of public officials should impel them to be sticklers about following their own rules.
The culture war itself is likely to be the overwhelming issue in 2022, rather than the president.
A Marine Corps study released in 2015 found that all-male units performed better than gender-integrated units on 69% of tasks.
There may be all sorts of legitimate grounds for criticizing billionaires, but attaining suborbital flight under their own power doesn't seem one of them.
It's pointlessly destructive to tear down what deserves to be honored.
"If Georgia's elections are undemocratic, then almost all of our democratic allies are also undemocratic."
The fate of the Afghans who have assisted U.S. forces is uncertain, although under political pressure here at home, Biden has committed to getting them out.

Castro took over a country in pretty good shape and wrecked it, rather than the other way around.
It resorts to all the usual Beltway gimmicks to create the pretense that it's paid for, when it's basically as irresponsible as the rest of the Biden spending.
"Their statesmanship looked beyond the passing moment and stretched away in strength into the distant future."

What's happening in Portland's riot unit is a microcosm of what's happening everywhere.
The old consensus on China had become unsustainable, but it took Trump to demolish it.
Biden's approach is lacking, and disturbingly so.
It is unfocused, highhanded in its impositions on the states, careless of speech rights, and constitutionally dubious.
The commitment of almost all the Democrats was not quite as steadfast as advertised.
The Texas bill is no more a voter suppression measure than the Georgia election law that passed a few months ago.
They are fooling themselves if they think they won't be blamed for rising violence in Democratic-run cities.