To some in the Biden Administration, the supply chain crisis can be dismissed as a loss of East Asian-made consumer trinkets that, as Vox tells us, we could all be better off without—or as White House spokesperson Jen Psaki suggested, amounts to little more than “the tragedy of the delayed treadmill.”
When China released the COVID-19 virus onto the world and the United States fumbled to respond, American supply chain professionals did not experience fear of the unknown so much as déjà vu. We saw in the pandemic another iteration of the sick, dysfunctional China-U.S. trade relationship.
The Supreme Court has handed down ruling after glorious ruling, most notably overturning Roe and Casey in their landmark abortion case, but also defending the right to bear arms in self defense and the right to free expression of religion. Is gutting the administrative state next? Plus: the latest from Impeachment Part III, the Revenge (i.e., the January 6 hearings).