Commentary Over at the American Greatness website the other day, Dan Gelernter wrote a most interesting column headed: “The Left Can Finally Admit What it Wants,” in which he reminds us of certain items on the Left’s agenda that Democrats once had to keep hidden from voters but that now, he writes, they are more or less open about. When I first read it, I thought this was nonsense. Just look at his principal example, which is the intention to raise our taxes. He recalls that, when Walter Mondale lost to Ronald Reagan in 1984 in a 49-state landslide after promising to raise taxes, Democrats through the following nine election cycles never again dared openly to admit to such a plan. But have they now admitted it? Not at all. President Biden is so far sticking to the Obama-era strategy of insisting, in the teeth of all economic evidence, that …
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