Ron Klain the man behind Biden's radicalism

 NY Times:

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Republicans have taken to calling him Prime Minister Klain.

“He’s kind of the guy behind the curtain,” Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota, said recently of the chief of staff. It is an oft-repeated Republican line of attack and a characterization the White House is determined to quash.

“I’m a staff person, not prime minister,” Mr. Klain, who declined to be interviewed for this article, told Kara Swisher last month on her podcast “Sway.”

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, a longtime colleague of Mr. Klain’s, reaffirmed this message in an interview, referring to him as “the premier staff person, certainly of my generation.”

In fact, the chief of staff holds an outsize authority in the constellation of Biden insiders, many of whom, like him, go back decades with the president. People in and around the White House describe Mr. Klain as the essential nerve center of an over-circuited administration whose day-to-day doings reflect how this White House works and what it aspires to.

Mr. Klain rarely travels anywhere with the boss, including local hops like President Biden’s visit to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to push the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion infrastructure plan. Instead, the chief of staff stayed behind to work the phones and strategize with lawmakers and White House negotiators and, essentially, deal with a simultaneous array of meetings, triage decisions and crises.

“I probably talk to him every day, and we can finish each other’s sentences,” said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader. “If there’s a thorny problem, I’ll call him.”
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Biden is certainly not governing as the "moderate" Democrats claimed he was during the campaign.  He is a radical leftist pushing ridiculous policies on the country and making ridiculous claims about voter integrity measures.  Anyone who seriously thinks voter ID is the equivalent of the Civil War is just not intelligent and is ignorant of history.  The administrations' attacks on voter ID are an insult to the intelligence of black people.  One of Klain's biggest failures was allowing Biden to make that ridiculous speech about voter integrity laws.

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