At the first rally of President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign at a university in northern Virginia this month, the words “Restore Roe” hung in the background in bold, radiant lettering. Biden, with his skin freshly tightened around the eyes and his teeth freshly nuked to a dazzling white, lurched over his podium and asked the audience with choleric enthusiasm, “Are you ready to defend your freedom?” The racially diverse crush of female Democrats standing behind the president waved their pro-choice placards and hooted and scowled in response.
The decision to capitalize on the anger of Democratic women by running on the restoration of Roe v. Wade makes too much sense — so much, in fact, that it’s hard to believe Biden’s team is behind it. (Where, for instance, was such competence during the Afghanistan withdrawal?)
