Dark Brandon is having a really, really good week (and it's only Wednesday). The inflation rate has cratered to just 3 percent, the best in two years. Gas prices and airfares are down. The jobs reports continue to impress. And the NATO summit in Vilnius went super-well. Sweden's in, there's a wall of righteous opposition arrayed against Vladimir Puttin, and even perpetually stressed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is going home happy.
And Team Biden keeps getting big assists from the Republicans. You know them — the ones who unanimously voted against the Inflation Reduction Act of 2002? Now, the GOP is not only clinging still more tightly to Benedict Donald — who's about to come up against his third and fourth set of indictments — they're leaning hard into the culture wars that turn so many voters off.
Abortion, LGBTQ issues, "wokeness" (whatever that is), book bans — Republicans are just obsessed, aren't they? And instead of trying to dial it all back to appeal to moderates, they're barreling forward. Just look at what's happening in Iowa, site of the first meaningful event in their 2024 nominating contest. This Friday, Republican Governor Kim Reynolds is expected to sign a six-week abortion ban into law. Which means that every GOP candidate who competes in the Iowa caucus will have to endorse the six-week cutoff (or forced birth).
What a gift to Democrats everywhere, from Biden-Harris to our House, Senate and state house candidates. That's why, even as he was wrapping up the NATO summit, you saw President Biden tweeting about codifying Roe today. The campaign ads just write themselves. We cats PURR.
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