be transformational during his first two years in office when he also had a broad majority in the senate. president biden doesn t have that transformational opportunity. so he misunderstood it and he went too far. there are areas and i think bill clinton is a good model. there are actually areas where the president could reach agreement with the republicans. the infrastructure bill was a bipartisan bill i think of regulating big tech and maybe going big on immigration reform, trade and border security for citizenship for dreamers and a path to citizenship rather. at least that gives him some some political breeze and an advantage, which he doesn t have by doubling down on build back better. one of the things you wrote, though, that surprised me you think biden should announce now he s not going to run for re-election. if he does that, doesn t that make him kind of a lame duck? doesn t that suck out a lot of his power? well, i mean, this is a column i actually wrote back
be a transformational president. lbj could be a transformational president when he had an overwhelming majority in both houses of congress. president obama had a moment to be transformational during his first two years in office when he also had a broad majority in the senate. president biden doesn t have that transformational opportunity. so he misunderstood it and he went too far. there are areas and i think bill clinton is a good model. there are actually areas where the president could reach agreement with the republicans. the infrastructure bill was a bipartisan bill i think of regulating big tech and maybe going big on immigration reform, trade and border security for citizenship for dreamers and a path to citizenship rather. at least that gives him some some political breeze and an advantage, which he doesn t have by doubling down on build back better. one of the things you wrote, though, that surprised me you
martin luther king march for civil ricghts, there were peopl who said a version of that, if you didn t do this, you wouldn t be anchoring all the segregationists in the world. of course that was a terrible thing to say. they were out there defending their cause, their rights, et cetera. but is that a fair comparison to make? how is this not about civil rights? i ll tell you, poppy. discriminating against someone based on the their religion, how is that not civil rights? i noticed that larry kudlow, who was big on immigration reform, has changed his mind. i think, and larry kudlow, thinks we should put a hold on immigration for everyone until we get a better hold on it. forget muslims, every religion and nationality. you re saying stop immigration? temporarily. completely? completely.