The Daily 202: Experts assess Biden on the pandemic, the border and bringing ‘normal’ back Olivier Knox
with Mariana Alfaro
Welcome to The Daily 202 newsletter! One year ago today, the U.S. passed 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. But with
President Biden poised to mark the occasion with his first speech to a joint session of Congress, The Daily 202 reached out to a handful of experts to get their sense of how he has done on a handful of key challenges,
from the pandemic to the economy to immigration. We have separated their responses and will be running them in two waves, today and tomorrow. Their contributions have been edited for clarity and length.
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One unfortunate consequence of the conservative movement s descent into nihilism and madness is that it has produced increasingly mediocre stars who distinguish themselves only by their willingness to behave more shamelessly than everyone else. It s enough to make you yearn for the days of Paul Ryan, who at least rose to prominence by tricking Beltway types into thinking his customer service for plutocrats, chock full of discredited economics and bad math, was actually a wonky platform rooted in a coherent philosophy of government. Now we re subjected to the grotesque stylings of Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene, who don t seem to have any policy proposals at all, at least as far as they relate to actual problems this country faces.
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