Senator Manchin

I don’t know what Joe Manchin’s motives are, but I think he deserves credit for saving the country from an enormously expensive expansion of the federal government into areas where it has no business, to be financed in large part by borrowing in the name of future generations unable to give their consent. We are still likely headed for a fiscal and debt crisis, but now it may at least be postponed.

I hope to see divided government, with a few Democrats who are not de facto socialists, and a few Republicans who are not Trumpanzees; this may perhaps save us from the follies and the malice of the two political mainstreams.