JOE BIDEN AND THE POWERLESS PRESIDENCY. There’s no doubt inflation is the nation’s most pressing concern. All the polls show it. All the data show it. And everyone just personally knows it.

President Joe Biden will not admit that his policies, and his party’s policies, have made inflation worse — and that, if Biden and congressional Democrats had their way, they would make it worse still. He just can’t say that. Instead, the president’s reaction has been a mixture of denial, finger-pointing, ineffective gestures, and, perhaps most of all, the argument that he, as president, is virtually powerless to address the nation’s most pressing concern.