Is the Biden Bubble Bursting?

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Can the Democratic Party break out of the bubble it has created and sustained for so long? Or will it double down on the denial?

First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic:

• Anne Applebaum: Time to roll the dice
• John Dean: Richard Nixon would have loved the Court’s immunity decision.
• Adam Serwer: Biden must resign.
• In Ukraine, we saw a glimpse of the future of war.

Warnings Ignored

Even casual observers of American politics have long known that Trump-supporting conservatives are trapped in an information silo of their own making. But last week, it became clear that the Democrats are also in desperate need of a reality check.

In the Democrats’ epistemic bubble, wish-casting prevailed,, it turns out that “Republicans are not the only party whose putative leaders have a toxic lemming mindset and are willing to lead American democracy off a cliff.”