Biden is not the coronavirus messiah

Published December 11, 2020 5:00am ET



With the help of his media allies, President-elect Joe Biden is trying to present himself as a messiah figure who will be able to lead America out of the darkest days of the pandemic within his first 100 days in office.

The reality is that regardless of any action taken by Biden, we are already on track to be in a much better place by the end of April than we are today. Biden is a politician, and not an especially honest one, so he can be expected to claim responsibility for what was already going to happen. But the media should not abet him in this deception, a ridiculous narrative based on the classic rainmaking con.

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