Hey, it's Andrew Clayton. Welcome to this week's interview. Today, I am honored and delighted

to have Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel to discuss her new book, The Biden

Lays. Democratic weakness from Jimmy Carter to Joe Biden and how America bounces back. A lot of

you, I know do not remember Jimmy Carter. I was there. It was a tremendously depressing time. I

remember living in a really low level neighborhood outside of Boston. The economy was in the tank. And

yet at the same time, inflation was spiraling upward. People were miserable. And at that time, Jimmy

Carter made a famous speech in which he talked about the American malaise. He said, there's a crisis,

the strikes at the very heart and soul of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing

doubt of the meaning of our own lives and the loss of unity and purpose as a nation. The erosion of

confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and political fabric of the nation. So

like all Democrats, he never occurred to him to look in the mirror and say, oh, wait, it's me. I'm

doing this. My lousy policies are doing this. But they were Kimberly Strassel has written a

new book called The Biden malaise. She is a New York Times bestselling author, a member of the Wall

Street Journal editorial board. I read her weekly column, Potelmac Watch every Friday. And I have

to tell you, it is one of the best columns about politics and the inside workings of politics and

what is going on. There is, you should all be reading Kim Strassel and this book. Kim, it is great

to see you. And it is so great to be here and see you. It's been, it's been a long time.

The last time, the last time I saw you was in an airport lounge and you were running out and I

kind of lifted my hand, but you were gone before I could say anything. So The Biden malaise,

really fascinating book. You draw the parallel with Jimmy Carter and not like I said, a lot of my

audience may not remember Carter, but it was a grim time and very, very much like this one. The

parallels are amazing. The fact that we have to learn this every generation is kind of crazy.

...