March 14, 2023

Now they tell us. The mainstream media can now reveal that, after promising to unify the country, President Joe Biden has been governing from the left for the last two years. The New York Times declares, “Biden Moves to Recapture the Centrist Identity That Has Long Defined Him.” The paper quotes a centrist Democrat advocacy group trumpeting that “it’s a good day to be a moderate Democrat. We’re back, better than ever.” The tacit admission is, of course, that moderates have been gone, banished to the chilly outskirts of the party. But, now, with an expected reelection campaign announcement looming, Amtrak Joe has let them back into the fold. He was for the center before he was against it.

Admittedly, the president’s rightward shift is causing whiplash for some of his allies on the left. Politico reports that, since his State of the Union speech, the Democratic leader has “made a series of high-profile moves that are disappointing progressives and creating a ‘Biden-moves-to-the-center’ narrative.” According to the Washington Post, some of the president’s advisors are calling Biden’s rightward lean on crime, immigration, and energy policy “Chapter Two” — an acknowledgment that he’s turning the page from “Chapter One.”

But never fear. In his speech, last week, unveiling his $6.9 trillion budget proposal, the president took care to denounce “MAGA Republicans” sixteen times. Opposition to Donald Trump is still the glue that holds Democrats together.