There comes a point in most Administrations when an American President confronts his surprising powerlessness, sbg1 writes. Joe Biden, it seems, has reached that point.
during the initial stages of the pandemic, and then quickly backed away when confronted with the facts of what such an assertion in practice would mean.
Biden may have overcorrected. Which is why, I suspect, the President ended the week delivering an unusual prime-time address to the nation, from the White House’s Cross Hall, with flickering rows of candles behind him in honor of the victims of mass shootings. In his speech, Biden struck a very different note from his hey-what’s-a-President-to-do laments of earlier in the week. He talked of going to mourn with the families of the victims in Buffalo and Uvalde.
Rather than merely bemoaning the influence of the all-powerful gun lobby again, he offered a long list of specific legislation to be passed. He called for an assault-weapons ban and, if that is too politically difficult for Congress, pushed to raise thesuch a weapon, from eighteen to twenty-one. He demanded new “red flag” laws that would allow family members or school officials to ask a judge to temporarily block an unstable person from possessing or buying firearms.
Can Biden turn his political fortunes around? June, as the Democratic strategist Doug Sosnik recently, is more or less the last chance in a midterm-election year for a President and his party to somehow change course and avert a looming political debacle in the fall. “In the last four midterm elections, by June the public had made up its mind about the leadership in Washington and how they were going to vote in November,” Sosnik observed.
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