Commentary Talking of irony, as I did last week (see “The Irony in Biden’s Call for Unity” in The Epoch Times of Jan. 21, 2021), I saw a headline in USA Today the same day that made me laugh out loud: “Joe Biden needs a democracy czar to jump-start vital changes in elections and education.” Although the USA Today’s editorial staff seems not to have have been aware of the oxymoronic juxtaposition of “democracy” and “czar,” the author of the article, Dick Meyer, at least noticed it in passing: “This is just an incomplete and admittedly top-down list of possible paths to new political vaccines,” he wrote. “President Joe Biden might want to jump-start this important work by, ironically, naming a Democracy Czar.” (For the benefit of educationally challenged Millennials, a “Czar” was the name given by the Russians to the absolute rulers of their country prior to 1917 and …
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