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Pinocchio President
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Vol. 38, No. 23

12/12/2022

Pinocchio President

As Americans struggle to make ends meet and keep their middle-class standard of living, Joe Biden brags that the economy is strong. ...

William P. Hoar

Joe Biden was supposed to be the new FDR, but his pitch was juuuuust a bit outside: Roosevelt produced the New Deal; Biden gave us the Ordeal.

It is instructive, however, to look at how we got pitched. A straight account in the fall of 2020 would acknowledge that Joe Biden was able to win the Democratic nomination by pretending to be a moderate. Then, when that nomination was in hand, his team came up with a platform (largely overlooked by the public) that would push longtime spending by Washington to the highest levels in decades. 

We sure got plenty of spending. Nonetheless, the mainstream media tried to keep up the pretense of Bidenesque restraint. 

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