671: Imagining the early days of a possible Biden administration with regard to the virus, the economy, China. @VDHanson @HooverInst
Image:1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Fala in the White House Study, Washington, DC
Imagining the early days of a possible Biden administration with regard to the virus, the economy, China. @VDHanson @HooverInst
Victor Davis Hanson: @VDHanson; Hoover Institution, and The Case for Trump, in re: The Senate will stay GOP, and in the House Mrs Pelosi will have reduced power. If Biden wins: Harris will tell Biden, We want the following orders (stop fracking, no oil drilling on federal lands, etc.). Biden has no constituency. Even Schumer and Pelosi will barely be with him. Biden said he’d “keep us all safe.” National mandate for masks? Will he return to a basement? If he’s sworn in, we’ll be told that the Chinese flu is no longer dangerous. In a nanosecond, big tech & media will say that it’s time to return to regular economic activity. This is the biggest scandal in American history: calling the winner prematurely, suppressing the vote; it's such a bitter climate that it’s hard to see how the Republicans will work with him.
China: Xi is delighted at the prospect of a Biden presidency. Before Trump leaves office, will he appoint a special prosecutor to look at Hunter Biden and his family? Probably yes. And that’ll reveal a lot of Chinese cash going to Biden’s brother and Biden’s son. The Durham investigation? In late December or early January there’ll be indictments.