Commentary
President Joe Biden went on a hyper-partisan, demagogic rampage Thursday evening, standing before an eerily red-lit Independence Hall in Philadelphia, with U.S. Marines at attention exploited as political props.
The speech, attacking Donald Trump and “MAGA Republicans” as a threat to “the very foundations of our republic,” was touted in advance by the White House as a sober reflection on America’s soul. But the soul of the country throughout U.S. history has had everything to do with private industry—and this speech sought to distract from the dour economic conditions during Biden’s tenure and that of his party’s narrow majorities in both houses of Congress….