1. Ok, let's talk about a different strategy for Biden and Dems, going all the way back to inauguration. Instead of seeing the election as a mandate to expand the safety with weird badly designed programs, what would a good agenda have been? Deal with Covid. What does that mean?
2. First, recognize it is an endemic disease, not a never-ending moral war no one actually believes in. Expand treatment so we can handle increased illness. How? Go after cheating in hospitals and health care. Here are dozens of GOP bills to do that. republicans-oversight.house.gov/report/comer-r…
3. The amount of waste and cheating in health care is insane - I mean nursing homes are run by near-mobsters. We're talking trillions. Highlight it. Investigate it. Attack it. Use CMS to block private equity from running hospitals, treatment centers, nursing homes, etc.
4. Then make sure that there are free at home tests. Fire this mustachioed weirdo at the FDA blocking new tests from coming into the market and use the billions appropriated to create smart competition for free tests, like Trump did with the vaccines. mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-mustache…
5. Do your best to mandate vaccines, but other than that remove all restrictions from the economy for Covid. Declare victory. Attack any bureaucracy restricting people unreasonably. Tell Fauci he's not allowed to talk to the media anymore.
6. Meet with militant workers and hold hearings on the labor unrest happening now, and its relationship with private equity and Wall Street. Build a case to reform labor, antitrust, and franchising law to match what people who work need.
7. There's a lot more. Actually investigate inflation and supply chain problems, instead of handwaving at it by pointing to the blog posts of partisan macro-economists telling you to ignore it. But that's the gist.
Investigate and fix problems around which there's consensus.
Investigate and fix problems around which there's consensus.
8. As an aside, Republican @RepJimBanks has the best hospital reform legislation in Congress. It would be something to get behind. banks.house.gov/news/documents…
9. Doing what I've recommended would cause massive screeching among key parts of the Dem elites, because the Covid political emergency gives them meaning. Biden won't do that, because he's managing a coalition. But that's what he should have done.
10. Most of the things that would help - free tests, masks, better ventilation - aren't restrictions. In fact if public health bureaus couldn't order people around they'd have to find ways to actually implement better public health measures.
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