Tucker Carlson goes, Biden stays and prospects for U.S. stability brighten
, lose yet more credibility. The setbacks come on the heels of other beatings. The upshot sees momentum being sucked away from the hard-right populism that has turned Americans against one another., running for another term despite his dotage. From his side of the political spectrum, there was scarcely a word of protest. Under their conventional-thinking leader, the Democrats present a unified front. “We need stability,” said Jamaal Bowman, one of their New York congressmen.
Fox could take a serious ratings hit with Mr. Carlson’s exit. It comes on top of the network suffering a major embarrassment in having to pay an eye-popping US$787.5-million settlement to Dominion Voting Systems for airing false claims that the company conspired to rig the 2020 election. Text messages revealed that Mr. Carlson and other network heavies didn’t believe Donald Trump’s bunk about a stolen election but went into full fake-news mode in endorsing the fiction anyway.
Those elections were a grave test for American democracy, as it was feared vote tallies would be rejected. That didn’t happen. Many candidates who were deniers of the 2020 election outcome went down to defeat. One of Mr. Biden’s promises was to restore American democracy. He has made some progress on that pledge.
But all is not hunky-dory for Mr. Biden. He still fares poorly in national opinion polls, consistently falling below 50 per cent in approval ratings. A huge majority of Americans continue to say that the country is on the wrong track. Mr. Biden is being investigated for possession of classified documents. His son Hunter Biden is being investigated on questions of taxes and foreign business dealings. Despite his fine list of legislative accomplishments, Mr.
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