May 17, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
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Ms. Collins and Mr. Stephens are Opinion columnists. They converse every week.
Gail Collins: Well Bret, I feel obliged to start us off with Liz Cheney. Kicked out of Republican leadership, but not giving up on her Trump-lost-the-election message, and still attached to a party that seems doomed to never, ever get its act together.
Bret Stephens: I bet you never imagined you’d someday find yourself thinking: “What America really needs are more Republicans like Liz Cheney!”
Gail: Well, yeah, it hadn’t really come up. …
Bret: I’ve always liked her. She was one of the few elected Republicans willing to criticize Trump openly during his presidency. Our foreign policy views are hawkishly in tune. And she understands that the U.S. can’t hold itself up as some kind of paragon of liberal democracy when one party is in thrall to a mendacious Mussolini manqué whose only saving grace is that he lacked the guile o
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Wishful comparisons of President Biden to Franklin Delano Roosevelt have been coming fast and furious.
In a New York Times essay, the liberal author Jonathan Alter dubbed Biden âFDRâs heirâ and declared that by signing the $1.9 trillion COVID stimulus package, the president âhas made a good startâ at duplicating what âRoosevelt did amid the Depression.â In another column, the Timesâs Jamelle Bouie hailed the stimulus bill as âFDR-sizedâ and said it âcompares favorablyâ with anything FDR signed in his first 100 days. âBiden is off to an excellent start â arguably, one of the best since Roosevelt,â kvelled David Gergen, a former adviser to four presidents. Time magazine announced even before the election that Biden was âpositioning himself as a modern FDRâ and agreed that Roosevelt could be âBidenâs closest presidential parallel.â