In the wake of last week’s defeat of Democratic candidates across the country, an elite consensus has formed that blames Democrats’ failures at the ballot box on their
Author: Amy Walter, Cook Political Report
A Return to Normal or a ‘New’ Normal?
The central premise and promise of the Biden campaign in 2020 was that he’d return things to normal. But, normal meant different things to different people. For some ‘normal’ meant a return to a pre-Trumpian model of presidential leadership; one with …
Biden, Democrats and the Competency Question
When Biden was running for president, his message was pretty straightforward: I’m the guy who will bring normal back to Washington. Where President Trump was unorthodox and chaotic, Biden would be conventional and organized. Trump ran the White House …