A brewing rebellion against Biden's abuse of the normal

 Quin Hillyer:

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To be sure, Biden’s abuse of the “normal” does start with spending. Adding on to former President’s Donald Trump’s reckless extravagance, Biden has gone even further by signing an unprecedented $1.9 trillion bill supposedly in relief of the coronavirus, proposing huge new spikes in annual appropriations on top of that, and then pushing a separate “infrastructure” plan that would spend yet another $2 trillion, most of it for social priorities never before considered to be infrastructure at all. This all completely dwarfs the $787 billion Obama “stimulus” plan, even after taking inflation into account, and it also comes not at a time of manageable national debt but instead in the worrisome context of the highest debt-to-GDP in U.S. history.

It's enough to make one suspect Biden is pushing the infamous Cloward-Piven strategy of deliberately creating a crisis so big that only government can solve it.

Still, dangerously high spending is but one part of Biden’s attack on the normal. Every parent of a daughter should be worried about Biden’s executive order that likely will have let biological males compete in, and ruin, girls athletics. And, on another front, all decent people should be appalled at the way Biden has lied about the Georgia voting law in demagogic ways that ramp up racial tensions — not to mention his support for H.R. 1, which would be the most radical change in U.S. voting systems in history, completely upending the constitutional design.

In the first step toward a massive power grab, Biden threatens to undermine the legitimacy of the Supreme Court by appointing a commission to “examine” court-packing — a move he himself long had said would be a “bonehead idea” and a “terrible, terrible mistake” that could be made only by someone “corrupted by power.”

Then, there is Biden’s flagrant attack on the very idea of American sovereignty. By joining his fellow Democratic presidential candidates in saying they would subsidize healthcare for illegal immigrants, by publishing an executive order (currently blocked by a judicial injunction) forbidding any deportations for 100 days, by nominating a leader for Customs and Border Protection who supports “sanctuary cities,” Biden has engineered the worst border crisis in U.S. history.

Then, there is Biden’s astonishing overreach via the most executive orders the most quickly in modern history; his embrace of the idea of killing the Senate filibuster; his proposal to raise corporate tax rates higher than those in Communist China; his cancellation of the Keystone pipeline (along with more than a thousand jobs); and a host of pro-abortion changes so radical that, for example, his administration will now allow mail-ordering and self-administration of significantly dangerous abortion-inducing pills.

None of this comes in the form of incremental change, or of attempts at unity, or even of efforts at public persuasion. Instead, Biden is trying to push almost all of this through in party-line fashion (or by executive fiat) without much debate, without building public support, without even half-measures toward compromise.

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Biden's radical move looks like he is an old guy trying to get it done before he runs out of time.  He lacks broad political support for this agenda.  That is one reason why he is abusing executive orders.  He is working with a slender majority of Democrats who also look to be bent on seizing power by illicit means.