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Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, Garland, et al. utterly failed to grasp the threat posed by Donald Trump’s Republican Party, including its Supreme Court branch. They sentimentally overestimated the attachment of American whites to the liberal order. They failed to take seriously that vast numbers of Americans inhabit far-right information communities. They undervalued the importance of showing cultural solidarity with working-class voters. And so on and so forth.

This is what I have been most disappointed about. Watching our institutions erode under a democratic President has been hard to take. Most disheartening was the supreme court commission that felt like an excuse to keep the failing status quo. Our leaders let us down.