Pets came back and so did daily press briefings for the public. Indeed America saw normalcy, some say dignity, return to the White House. Her rationale: Altering the rules would only “worsen the underlying disease of division infecting our country.” Krysten Sinema of Arizona announced her opposition to changing Senate rules to allow the bill to pass by a simple majority. Only two days after Biden’s lacerating speech in Atlanta invoking the darkest days of segregation, he saw his voting rights legislation run aground when Democratic Sen. And people under 40 have never seen inflation like this. Biden’s historic initiative to shore up the social safety net wallowed in Congress. Monthly payments to families that had slashed child poverty ran out Friday, with no assurance they will be renewed. The Supreme Court blocked his vaccinate-or-test mandate for most large employers.
In the dispiriting close of Biden’s first year, roadblocks stood in the way of all big things pending. That central, mass lie of a rigged vote has become a pretext in state after state for changing election rules and fueling even further disunity and grievance. In this midterm election year, Biden confronts seething divisions and a Republican Party that propagates the delusion that the 2020 election - exhaustively vetted, validated many times over, fair by all measures - was stolen from Donald Trump.
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