Reach than ever. Did the president and the staff overplay their hand after an election far from a mandate to radically transform america . Ask our panel, deputy editorial page, editor Dan Henninger and kim strassel. Thanks for letting me be here. Dan, it seems like democrats are stuck with a local culture most americans dont want. They are in the middle, for sure but lets put this into context, the progressives, Democratic Left have been taking over the Democratic Party for at least the past or years. Yes, joe biden won the Presidency Running on a platform of moderation but nonetheless, i think they expected trump fatigue would give them bigger majority in the senate and the house then they got. They did not get that but nonetheless, that was not going to stop the progressives from pushing their agenda and they signed up joe biden and his proposing of the greatest array of entitlement of tax increases at least since the early 1960s, lbjs great societies. I do think it is a misreading of the American Public. The election showed that. We had an election with people coming out of a year of the pandemic. Americans were looking for stability and not one of the most destructive political policies and the history of the country so theres no surprise blocking down in washington right now. David i think americans were looking for freedom, freedom from Government Micromanagement of our lives from these lockdowns with percentages getting outside and doing things we want to, lockdowns preventing businesses from growing. That seems to be the opposite direction in which democrats are going right now. Opposite of the interest of the american people. He says got a plan, we are going to get to the end of this pandemic. Like he said for most americans, that meant a return of freedom, the end of squaring, resuming normal and he talked about a recurrence in normality and generally a bit of calm after the jump years. We are not getting any of that not only restrictions continue in part because the cdc and other Government Guidance but its complete pandemonium in washington with people proposing crazy idea after crazy idea so it might not to be exact same as donald trump but its the same healing. David the folks behind woke culture have been clever, youve got to give them credit because theyve been spreading the ideas through local institutions, in particular things like School Boards most americans Pay Attention elections for president and senate and congress, not so much for School Boards but now they are beginning to and theres tremendous pushback. I liken it to the tea party in 2010 which had a lot of political significance eventually. Are we in the beginning stages of a major counter resolution of woke culture . I dont know if its a major Counter Revolution but obviously a reaction and pushback. I think the analogy to the Early Tea Party is a good one. Those were local movements when they started in here we have woke culture basically running off the events of last summer, george floyd murder, protests and a lot of institutions, progressives decided the platform of black lives matter, Structural Racism and Critical Race Theory is something that somehow they believe the United States was ready to embrace but when the rubber hits the road and they started proposing that, parents of children in schools across the country saw this had now replaced traditional curriculum, they began to fight back and i think again the progressives have completely misread the American Public mood and yes, its funny great Space Politics should not become the leading edge of reaction to the entire Democratic Party, something they are going to have to deal with. David kim, theres Something Else youre going to have to deal with, rising prices of gasoline in addition to Everything Else going up and a lot of this comes directly from the view of Green Energy Transformation in america. The first thing President Biden did on becoming president was the Keystone Pipeline, gas prices began to go up right after the election, i think the markets realized its an administration at war with fossil fuels. I dont think that plays well with the American Voters either, do you . Every administration knows, or they should know one of the biggest threats to them is when consumers and voters start to get hits to their pocketbooks. Rise in gas prices, Government Cost and inflation, they are looking at problems down the road. David and American Energy independence are so proud of having achieved that during the Trump Administration, it looks like weve lost at least for the moment. Good to see you both. Still ahead with the agenda hanging in the balance, progressives are pushing democrat leaders to go big, go bold and go it alone but are some democrat centers getting cold feet . Thats next. A warning from progressives as democrats struggled to keep the biden agenda afloat in evenly divided senate. Your congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez urging democrats to go it alone we now float during the Obama Administration folks think we had 60 democrat majority for a while lasting from us. Dems are burning precious time negotiating with gop wont even vote for generally six commission. Mcconnells plan is to run out the clock, its a puzzle. We need to move now but the question really is, who is hustling who . Is a couple of moderate democrats in the senate probably divorcing themselves from radical transformations that they never signed onto. Lets bring in Fox News Contributor carl, Senior Advisor for president george w. Bush. Good to see you. Thanks for coming in. A lot of americans see biden and schumer and the senate pushing radical agendas that they didnt sign on to, did democrat Senators Mansion and cinema feels the same . I think a lot of democrats did and this shows the difficulty of running a campaign not based on what you would have governed with but based on what the minimum is to win victory and the message last year was joe biden will not be Donald Trump Trump is on the covid relief. The second problem is when you do come out with something as revolutionary and transformational and as big as the agenda the Biden Administration has been laying out over the last four or five months, youre going to find a lot of democrats in the country were going to find themselves supporting the elements of the agenda let alone getting rid of the requirement that there would be 50 folks to take up a major in the senate. Its not just manchin and cinema, they are the most visible. We hear a lot about them but this past week, jacky rosen, im not in favor of getting rid of the filibuster, a week or two before that, Diane Feinsteins skepticism about that so its more than just a couple of democrat senators were in this and thats blocking the filibuster. They got rid of the filibuster, they still the have 50 votes for a bunch of the stuff, do you really think theyre going to say i want to make it difficult for Montana Farmers and ranchers to passive their land onto the kids . David after all, politicians are worried more than anything else about getting reelected and im sure theres pushback because as weve seen in polls recently, a growing number of americans dont want this country to go to the far left so these senators and members of the house are pushing back from their constituents, are they . Absolutely and the more they keep the measures the worse its going to get because in Swing Districts and states, people were not prepared to see that. Maybe the democrats would have been better if they were straightforward and said heres all the crazy stuff we want to do but the fact is if youre a democrat in a swing states like New Hampshire senate race or congressional seat in pennsylvania or florida or michigan, youre not going to be able to go back on this stuff to the folks back home and as a result they are going to have difficulty getting past. They think they thought he five Seat Majority in the house and 5050 Senate Somehow gave them license to run wild but it didnt. David its not an exactly in lbj mandate. No mandate. The question is no, how firm is senator manchin on the issue of the filibuster . Is equivocated before, he said im against getting rid of it but on the other hand it could be tweaked a little bit, how firm do you think he is standing up against the democrat push to get rid of it . We really dont know but i feel a lot better now that we have sinema out there, rosen and feinstein making. [background noises] and among the public and senators, i think there are a couple of more but theres boiling down to the longer the debate about the filibuster goes on, the worse it is for democrats. As a recent poll that showed while there was a morality opposed to getting rid of it, that was twice as big, more than twice as big as the number of people who wanted to get rid of it and eliminate altogether and those before getting into the discussion. The longer it goes on, the more you realize if you can pass it through congress with a bare majority 5050 senate and republicans take all of it over and it can be done, people instinctively dont want that going on in our government so the more you discuss, the worse it gets. David so if all you say is through, what happens to radical notions like packing the Supreme Court for this new voting bill that went through the house pretty easily and now the senate has to deal with it. Manchin already said he wouldnt find Something Like that but are they dead in the water . , a lot of it is. Congress built incremental changes, its not meant for revolutionary change. Its not st. Petersburg 1917. [laughter] this is not even bonded with the parliamentary majority getting everything at once or virtually everything at once because if it doesnt then the government falls but the senate is as James Madison said, the restraint on the house and the passion of the people. David and again, the question of whether youre going to have more Federales Station not just election laws but Public School systems, i think thats out of the question now particularly as americans are pushing back against the rules they dont support. Absolutely. The more ambitious and the more radical the transformational it is, the happier the left and Democratic Party is at the center of American Politics increasingly dubious and the others are red energized. David thank you for being here. 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She said they are going to get more money, the Community Groups at ngos and they are going to have the Justice Department try to help guatemala investigate corruption. On the first topic, aid to these groups, many of these groups have antidevelopment movement and guatemala and in washington and they are the ones, they oppose the development of mining, they oppose hydroelectric, they basically oppose private copyrights and development so can talk all she wants about how nice it is we are going to give money to these groups but if the groups are Anti Development groups, its not what she calls the root causes of migration. That is a big problem. David we heard that phrase, root cause over and over but dan, theres some logic here with the administrations plan, which is on the one hand there saying immigrants are coming because of the corruption and the government but at the same time the cure is to give more money to these governments they claim are so corrupt, it doesnt quite mesh. Not at all. Take it as a rule of thumb, whatever politicians say they are going to solve problems like going after the root causes, it means they have no clue whatsoever. The root cause is something you hide behind and its going to be millions upon millions of dollars in el salvador. I think most americans have completely gone. Their policy was essentially to reverse Donald Trumps policy. What everyone thinks of trumps policies, the consequence of that is to loosen the border. Joe biden himself said in 2019, we are going to see a search of asylumseekers at the border. He now has. What we know about Immigration Policies is that the is Immigration Laws are broken so whether its Kamala Harris or joe biden or jen psaki, they are faced with trying to defend the indefensible, theres no solution at hand and they are simply going to have to deal with the reality of people going across the border and as long as they have no policy whatsoever, this is going to be on the Biden Administration for months and months and then you have the problem of Kamala Harris not going to the border she was actually asked that question, i dont think she thought she would be asked, she certainly didnt have a prepared answer from lester whole of them is, let me see if i can get your. You havent been to the border . And i havent been to europe i to understand what youre saying. I dont understand what youre saying . Its simple, you havent been to the border. Thats where the crisis is. 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