Democrats believe they have the upper hand on legislation and culture and the narrative,

but the blowback is already beginning. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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web browsing at ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. Well, we begin today with an actual piece of good news, which I know is kind of rare these days because there's a lot of bad news from the world of culture, the world of media, and the world of legislation. And don't worry, we'll get to all the bad news. But there was one piece of news yesterday that really stood out to me. To understand why this is a piece of good news, what you first have to understand is what Joe Biden was actually elected to do and then what he thinks he has been elected to do. So what Joe Biden was actually elected to do was be, as I have termed him, President House Plant. His entire job was to be barely animate. That was his job. He constructed his entire campaign around the notion that he was going to be a warm body, a barely above room

temperature body, as Rush Limbaugh might say, that was going to be the entire thing, right? He's going to sit there, he's going to watch Madlock. We're all going to go back to normal. And that was going to be that. Most Americans thought that that was Joe Biden's pitch. He was a moderate old gentleman who wasn't going to push forward any sort of radical ideas. But Joe Biden, because he's a politician and an arrogant politician at that, he actually thinks that his mandate was to be transformational in some way. Now, here's the thing about America. We don't need a massive transformation. Before the COVID pandemic, things, at least in economic terms, were going swimmingly. We had incredible wage increases, particularly at the bottom of the spectrum. We had the lowest unemployment rate in 50 years.

And things were going swimmingly in terms of the economy. So we didn't need an economic transformation. And if we did need a transformation in terms of sort of our attitude toward politics, what we really needed was a cooling down. We didn't need a heating up. We didn't need more culture wars. We didn't need more radicalism. and Joe Biden was elected to sort of put a stop to that, right?

Joe Biden was elected because, specifically because he was barely alive. That was basically his campaign pitch. Biden, I'm barely alive. And that's the thing. He's kind of good at being barely alive because the bar is real low. All you have to do is not be dead and also not be super alive. You just have to be barely alive. And Joe Biden, it's like what he's qualified for. He was never, he was never any sort of great shakes mentally. But now, given the fact that he is in some pretty obvious decline, the American people saw that as an asset. They saw that as a feature, not a bug, of Joe Biden. And so Joe Biden, you know, being barely there has never impacted his popularity ratings. And people on the right are sort of frustrated by this, the fact that Joe Biden is clearly not what he once was. And again, he was never at a wonderful level to begin with. But he's clearly not what he once was. Why aren't more people turning on him because of that? And the answer is he was elected to be this. When Joe Biden loses his lines in the middle of press conferences, it's disquieting on a sort of human level to watch a man who's clearly starting to lose it be the most powerful man in the free world. But on another level, it's sort of comforting to know that that person theoretically is not going to wield outsized power to do radical things. So for example, yesterday, Joe Biden just lost his lines. He was talking about the COVID pandemic. And once again, there is a certain level of trepidation just as a human being. You get watching Joe Biden. Again, it's like watching Nick Willenda walk over a volcano. Like any moment here, things could go real bad. It's why people have suggested that we ought to cut away every time Joe Biden

goes up or down the stairs of Air Force One because we could be watching history in real time.

Here was Joe Biden yesterday losing his lines.

Until this vaccine is available to the world and we're beating back the vaccine, the virus in other

countries, we're not really completely safe. back the vaccine, the virus in other countries.

We're not really completely safe.

So we've made great progress.

I'm still looking forward to the prospect that we keep the pace we're on and we listen to one another.

Take the precautions I talked about.

And you'd be able to have a Fourth of July, an Independence Day on July the fourth.

Okay, so again, the guy's not all there. And that was the pitch. The pitch was genial old man who's not all there.

But his party believes, and he believes, that he's there to be a transformational president.

And so they've pushed really hard on every single front. They've pushed really hard on the legislative front. They're pushing forward a $2 trillion. Supposed infrastructure bill has nothing to do with infrastructure. Only 5% of that bill is roads and bridges. Even if you include things like broadband internet or plumbing because they want to replace some pipes. Even if you do that,

only about one third of the bill is dedicated to what could actually be termed infrastructure. They're

just expanding the term infrastructure to now include everything on planet Earth. They've already

pushed forward a two trillion dollar quote unquote COVID relief package that radically restructures

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