Morning Jolt: The Real State of the Union

On the menu today: Tonight, Joe Biden will give the annual State of the Union Address, and we already know how most partisans will react. Almost all Democrats will gush that Biden delivered the finest address since Winston Churchill, and almost all Republicans will say it was a disastrous, failed effort to hide an abysmally disappointing record. You can also predict how the speech will be perceived by MSNBC and the editorial board of the New York Times, and how it will be greeted by Fox News. This predictable pattern means that Democrats rarely recognize when they've screwed up, as they're always being told they're doing a good job — or at least a much better job than Republicans could ever do. That "closed circle" of constant positive reinforcement and inaccurate feedback is how Democrats keep convincing themselves that the likes of Kamala Harris, Andrew Cuomo, Beto O'Rourke, Stacey Abrams, etc. are the next great American leader. We've got a lot of problems in this country, and a lot of them stem from our tendency to see what we want to see, instead of what is actually there.

Willful Blindness

Yesterday's Corner post about Vice President Kamala Harris and the "closed circle" of the Democrats and the major U.S. media ...

WITH JIM GERAGHTY February 07 2023 WITH JIM GERAGHTY February 07 2023 The Real State of the Union On the menu today: Tonight, Joe Biden will give the annual State of the Union Address, and we already know how most partisans will react. Almost all Democrats will gush that Biden delivered the finest address since Winston Churchill, and almost all Republicans will say it was a disastrous, failed effort to hide an abysmally disappointing record. You can also predict how the speech will be perceived by MSNBC and the editorial board of the New York Times, and how it will be greeted by Fox News. This predictable pattern means that Democrats rarely recognize when they've screwed up, as they're always being told they're doing a good job — or at least a much better job than Republicans could ever do. That "closed circle" of constant positive reinforcement and inaccurate feedback is how Democrats keep convincing themselves that the likes of Kamala Harris, Andrew Cuomo, Beto O'Rourke, Stacey Abrams, etc. are the next great American leader. We've got a lot of problems in this country, and a lot of them stem from our tendency to see what we want to see, instead of what is actually there. Willful Blindness Yesterday's Corner post about Vice President Kamala Harris and the "closed circle" of the Democrats and the major U.S. media ...   READ MORE

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