Can the White House keep working across the aisle to maintain a semblance of bipartisan normalcy?
Democratic voters in 2020 rejected presidential candidates deemed too far left, such as Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, and instead chose the guy who had campaigned as a more moderate alternative. To the dismay of many supporters, Joe Biden then spent more than two years doing his best impression of a progressive. But last week, Candidate Biden finally reappeared.
Republicans seldom miss an opportunity to highlight the president’s mental decline, but the bipartisan debt-ceiling bill he signed on Saturday could signal that he’s coming to his senses. “No one got everything they wanted but the American people got what they needed,” Mr. Biden said on Friday. Welcome to divided government. If voters had wanted a Democratic president to run roughshod over the opposition, they wouldn’t have given Republicans control of the House last year.
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Jason L. Riley is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a columnist at The Wall Street Journal, and a Fox News commentator. Follow him on Twitter here.
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