Has our response to COVID finally stopped the engine? Is what we are experiencing a sign that it is just coasting down now? Forced shutdowns and vaccine mandates are robbing the commerce engine of its most essential element: a workforce with the expertise and dedication to keep it running.
The “malaise” speech came to define the Carter presidency. He will forever be known as the president who had no faith in the American people. Biden’s September 9 announcement will define his presidency as well. He will forever be known as the president who had open contempt for his countrymen.
This isn’t the normal grumbling of citizens embarrassed by a President’s Texas accent or his mean tweets. This is the seething anger that one gets when cheated by a con artist. We were promised a return to normalcy. What we got was a doddering old fool with the most radical agenda in history.