Christopher F. Rufo  ⚔️

So a few thoughts catching up after a very busy day. 1. I thought Biden's speech -- which I finally watched -- was an incoherent hodgepodge. 2. Some of the stuff he proposes looks legally/constitutionally dubious (even tho I think gov't has extraordinary powers in pandemic). 1/

3. That said, a lot of this may be more "legal" than people think, but that's partly because a crazy amount of power has been delegated to the bureaucracy. In other words, the outrage may not be that this is illegal but that it's legal. I'd like to learn more. 2/

5. I am more sympathetic to being aggressive on vaccines than some folks on the right these days. But that we are where we are feels partly like an attempt to recover from a bunch of policy fumbles earlier in his admin. 4/

7. Anyway more thoughts later. But: Whether you think what Biden's doing is a sincere/legal/noble effort to fight the pandemic or a tyrannical outrage or a cynical media strategy, IT WOULDN'T BE HAPPENING IF EVERYONE WAS VACCINATED. Get vaccinated, ffs.