Republican presidents are typically pilloried by their media foes as empty vessels incapable of sustained or sophisticated thought, easily manipulated by sly and unscrupulous staff or dangerous wives. Democrats, on the other hand, are invariably praised as extraordinary intellectuals, the brightest minds of their, and possibly every previous, generation. So, it is with some interest that the media is openly crediting President Joe Biden’s chief of staff, Ronald Klain, with being Biden’s “brain” and the prime architect and engine of Biden’s uncompromisingly progressive agenda.
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