Commentary
I have been trying to understand why President Joe Biden and the Big Government Socialists keep saying and doing things that simply do not work.
Their problem is not just a question of being too far to the left. Their problem is rejecting reality when it conflicts with their ideological fanaticism.
President Ronald Reagan warned about this pattern when he said, “It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”
Theodore White warned about this rigid commitment to beliefs over facts 50 years ago in his great work “The Making of the President 1972.” White noted that Democratic presidential candidate and Sen. George McGovern simply could not get the radicals on the Left to modify their positions. As White put it, “the liberal ideology had become a liberal theology.”…