Stuck on Stupid, Biden and the Democrats Face Disaster in November

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair

“Let them eat cake,” Marie Antoinette once famously said, disdaining the immiseration of peasants in pre-revolutionary France.  Joe Biden didn’t use those exact words last week during his interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett, but his tone-deafness about the suffering of millions of Americans grappling with high food and gas prices and unaffordable rents was palpable.

Burnett did her best to allow Biden the opportunity to address voters with a measure of simple empathy ...