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FOX News correspondent Kristin Fisher has the details from the White House on ‘Special Report’<\/p>\n
The corruption of the Renaissance Church prompted the Reformation, which in turn sparked a Counter-Reformation of reformist, and more zealous, Catholics. <\/p>\n
The cultural excesses and economic recklessness of the Roaring \u201920s were followed by the bleak, dour and impoverished years of the Great Depression.<\/p>\n
The 1960s counterculture led to Richard Nixon\u2019s landslide victory in 1972, as “carefree hippies” turned into careerist “yuppies.”<\/p>\n
So social, cultural, economic and political extremism prompt reactions \u2014 and sometimes counterreactions. <\/p>\n
BIDEN RECEIVED MORE MONEY FROM TEACHERS UNIONS THAN ANY OTHER CANDIDATE IN 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n The Bush-Clinton-Obama continuum of 24 years cemented the bipartisan fusion administrative state. Trump and his “Make America Great Again” agenda were its pushback.<\/p>\n The counterreaction to the populism of the Trump reset \u2014 or Trump himself \u2014 is as of yet unsure.<\/p>\n Joe Biden\u2019s tenure may mark a return to business as usual of the Bush-Clinton years. Or, more likely, it will accelerate the current hard-left trajectory.<\/p>\n Either way, it seems that Biden is intent on provoking just such a pushback by his record number of early and often radical executive orders \u2014 a tactic candidate Biden condemned.<\/p>\n On almost every issue \u2014 open borders, blanket amnesties, canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, promoting the Green New Deal, and hard-left appointees \u2014 Biden is touting positions that likely do not earn 50 percent public support.<\/p>\n PSAKI SAYS BIDEN WANTS SCHOOLS OPEN, BUT WON’T COMMIT TO STANDING UP TO UNION OBSTRUCTION<\/strong><\/p>\n When Biden made a Faustian bargain with his party\u2019s hard-left wing of Sens. Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to win the election, he took on the commitment to absorb some of their agenda and to appoint their ideologues.<\/p>\n But he also soon became either unwilling or unable to stand up to them.<\/p>\n Now they \u2014 and the country \u2014 are in a revolutionary frenzy. The San Francisco Board of Education has voted to rename more than 40 schools honoring the nation\u2019s best \u2014 Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln \u2014 largely on racist grounds that they are dead, mostly white males.<\/p>\n Statues continue to fall. Names change.<\/p>\n The iconic dates, origins and nature of America itself continue to be attacked to meet leftist demands. And still, it is not enough for the new McCarthyites.<\/p>\n Social media are banning tens of thousands. Silicon Valley and Wall Street monopolies go after smaller upstart opponents. <\/p>\n A wrong word destroys a lifelong career. Formerly sane pundits now call for curtailing the First Amendment. Thousands of federal troops blanket a now-militarized Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n If Trump\u2019s pushback tried to return to traditions ignored during the Obama years, Biden\u2019s reset promises to become far more radical than Obama\u2019s entire eight years.<\/p>\n Trump likely lost his second pushback term for two reasons \u2014 neither of which had anything to do with his reset agenda.<\/p>\n First, the sudden 2020 pandemic, quarantine, recession, summer-long demonstrations and riots, and radical changes in voting laws all ensured that 100 million ballots were not cast on Election Day, derailed a booming economy, and finally wore the people out. <\/p>\n CLICK HERE TO GET THE OPINION NEWSLETTER<\/strong><\/p>\n Second, Trump underestimated the multitrillion-dollar power and furor of Silicon Valley, Wall Street, the media, Hollywood and the progressive rich. Those forces all coalesced against him and swamped his outspent and outmanned campaign.<\/p>\n With 24\/7 blanket ads, news coverage, endorsements and social media messaging, Trump sometimes was easily caricatured as a twittering disrupter. The inert and mute Biden in his basement was reinvented as the sober and judicious Washington “wise man” antidote to Trump\u2019s unpredictability.<\/p>\n Had Biden continued his moderate campaign veneer, the current left-wing radicalism might not have prompted a counterreaction.<\/p>\n Instead, Biden is now unapologetically leading the most radical left-wing movement in the nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n Pundits thought Biden\u2019s prior hints of a single four-year term would make him a weak lame duck. Instead, the idea of just one term has liberated the 78-year-old Biden. We forget that septuagenarians can be as reckless as 20-year-olds. Some old guys can feel their careers only have a few remaining years and might as well go out with a bang \u2014 and a legacy.<\/p>\n For now, Biden enjoys a congressional majority for the next 24 months. He has no plans to run for reelection. He sees both realities as a liberating blank check to accomplish what the much more heralded rock star Barack Obama never could.<\/p>\n Experts assured voters that Biden would work on a bipartisan consensus and bring back “normality.” He would “unite” the country. <\/p>\n That will not happen. How ironic that Biden will not just be pushed and pressured by the radicals whom he brought to power, but he may be leading them forward to cement an even harder-left legacy.<\/p>\n