National Review
Last night President Biden spoke for 67 minutes. Where’s that shrinkflation when you need it?
Biden yelled his way through a State of the Union address aimed almost exclusively at shoring up his base.
Swing voters are not going to be persuaded that the economy is just great—not with these prices and these interest rates—or that it’s the Democrats who are tough on the border, or that a party that just tried to take the leading presidential candidate off the ballot is making a brave stand for democracy.
Biden’s fear about his left flank was most apparent when he chastised Israel at greater length than he condemned Hamas, the terrorist organization that began the current conflict and could, as he himself noted, end it at any time.
Biden may prove more successful in persuading Americans of his deceptions about abortion and IVF, not least because the press is on his side and Republicans are easily scared. But his overall strategy is risky.
It’s not progressives’ complaints that have pulled his job-approval rating to less than half his age, and catering to them will not change that.
