Everybody is suited up down in Washington, D.C. for The Most Important Week in Joe Biden’s Life or at Least His Presidency or Maybe Just His Next 10 Days. The drumbeat from the elite political press that the events this week are primarily a matter of Democratic Party infighting is, as you might expect, more than a little bunkum. Certainly, the wrangling between progressive and conservative Democrats is a contributing factor to the general tangle, but there is one, massive block of dark granite at the center of everything, and this story from NBC News makes, a bit inadvertently, the only point that matters. It concerns the fact that the Democratic factions in the House seem to have come to an agreement on voting-rights legislation to bring forward.
