As Virginia Goes, So Goes America…

November 2, 2021 could determine the future of the country: a Virginia gubernatorial election could either give the Republican Party the energy it needs to win in 2022 or it could solidify the Democratic Party’s victory in 2020. The GOP wants the election to hinge on education while the DNC, having no serious policy victory for itself since Joe Biden became president, must try to make the GOP candidate a Trump clone…the problem with that strategy is that it won’t work since Donald Trump has been out of the spotlight for months and people in Virginia (and elsewhere) are rightly worried about their kids’ education).

For Biden, Failure is an Option

President Joe Biden ran as a revolutionary president who would get big things done efficiently and competently. He was the new FDR. In fact, he is appearing much more like the ineffectual John Quincy Adams to Donald Trump’s Andrew Jackson, so argues Brandon J. Weichert in his recent Asia Times op-ed.

President Biden Can Now Fire General Milley

Mark Milley is a skilled political operator. But he’s not as skilled as he thinks. Milley’s actions in the final year of the Trump Administration and his recent testimony undermining President Joe Biden’s Afghanistan exit have now created the context necessary for Milley to be removed by Biden without much fuss from the press.

Biden Bungles America’s Oldest Alliance

President Joe Biden has become the master of unforced errors. He is completely correct to enhance US-UK-Australian military cooperation to balance against China. But there was no reason to alienate France and possibly the EU in the process – Brandon J. Weichert in The Asia Times