Dripping with humanity, and speaking softly and plainly, Biden made the case for his massive spending programs tonight. Unlike his two immediate predecessors, he neither soared nor savaged. He framed the overriding issue as winning the future against autocrats by building a more modern economy based on the interests of the poor and the middle class, not the wealthy and large corporations. It was an extremely effective speech.
If you’re a Republican, how do you respond to the spending programs? Do you say that there is no problem, for example, with the cost of child care, when the public knows perfectly well that there is? Do you say that the private sector can provide this service at a price everyone can afford, when it is clear that it doesn’t? Do you say we don’t have the money to pay for it, when the program comes with a popular funding source? Or do you just lie about what’s in the program, call it socialism, and go back to talking about meat quotas and the Harris book?
We already know the answer to that one.