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If his start accurately reflects the direction he plans to follow, Biden intends to become the most radical president in history. Sensible Americans better wake up before it's too late. Woke mob rules at NY Times In another black eye for the Gray Lady, a survey of New York Times employees found that only 51 percent agree with the statement that "There is a free exchange of views in this company; people are not afraid to say what they really think. " Worse, The Post reports the survey was taken in December, before the recent firing of top reporter Donald McNeil and podcast producer Andy Mills. They were not ousted because of their work, but because a cancel-culture mob is determined to impose its woke views on employees 24 hours a day, the past included. Although McNeil apologized for using the N-word in 2019 and Mills' history of randy behavior eight years ago was known when he was hired, both were ousted in victories for the mob. Top editor Dean Baquet has only himself to blame. He lost control of the newsroom and his willingness to surrender is creating a culture of fear and loathing, where people are afraid to speak honestly lest the mob come for them.
Meanwhile, press secretary Psaki refuses to call Israel an ally. The blitz of executive orders, directives and memoranda was clearly meant to emphasize that Biden was hitting the ground running. But that burst of activity will be worse than meaningless if the polices create or worsen problems for people. One example is that the energy-related directives all lean in the direction of restricting fossil fuels. So far, the only certainty of his actions are job losses connected to both his killing the Keystone pipeline and putting a freeze on drilling permits on federal land and water. The eventual impact will also mean a loss of American energy independence and price increases for electricity, gasoline and heating fuel. Telling laid-off workers they can go make solar panels, as John Kerry did, has all the compassion of a punch in the nose. Biden's climate czar, Kerry made his remarks at about the time a video surfaced of him defending his international travel on private jets by saying he is "working to win the battle of climate change. "
The new president made killing thousands of construction jobs connected to the Keystone XL pipeline one of his first acts, practically invited illegal immigrants to swarm the border and gives cover to obstructionist teacher unions that want to keep schools closed. The school issue goes to the heart of another Biden promise — to "follow the science" and "listen to the experts. " Yet when his CDC director said it was safe to open schools without teacher vaccinations, Biden press secretary Jen Psaki strangely said the director was "speaking in her personal capacity. " So it's follow the science, except when it's politically inconvenient. Similarly, we now learn Biden's promise to open most schools within 100 days came with fine print that guts the plain meaning. The actual goal, the White House now says, was to have more than 50 percent of schools open at least one day a week. In other words, 80 percent closed is Biden's definition of an open school. Then there's the vaccine production and distribution.
It is early, far below the traditional threshold of 100 days. Still, watching the major missteps of the Biden administration reminds that even presidents don't get a second chance to make a first impression. My expectations were low, but not low enough. I hoped, naively, that with political polarization leading to growing violence from both sides, the new president would make at least minimal efforts to keep his promise of building national unity. Instead, Joe Biden spent his first three weeks issuing more than 50 executive orders and actions that fall along straight partisan lines, with nearly all of them delivering goodies to his party's far-left wing and/or reversing successful Trump-administration policies. In most cases, he simply signed the sweeping directives without explaining the ostensible public benefits. As bad as the process looked, optics are not the real problem. It's the terrible substance of the major orders that is driving a stake through the heart of national reconciliation.