Washington Examiner Editor Hugo Gurdon:
- The shell game is also known as a “short con” because it is quick, simple, and easily executed, and it can be reversed whenever the trickster feels like it. Biden’s new ersatz toughness on fiscal matters, the border, inflation, and the rest is a short con. His policy seems to move, but it is all sleight of hand.
- Why is Biden signaling policy moves? Because he knows his real policies are unpopular when people can see what they are and how they fail. If he knows that, why doesn’t he change them to policies people want and that do work? Because he doesn’t have a firm conviction in his body. The only thing he’s sure of is that he wants to be president for a second term. So he’ll drift along indefinitely on the leftward flood of his party’s agenda.
