May 2—As today comes to a close, U.S. President Joe Biden and the House Republicans, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson, are locked in an ugly embrace, offering nothing of substance to the American electorate but the sick joke of crushing democracy in the name of stopping allegedly violent, anti-Semitic protesters. Yet that is what accompanies last week’s decision, with a $34 trillion national debt heading for trouble rapidly, with a militarization of the economy and of political discourse, of throwing another $95 billion installment of military hardware into the pot.
