CNN's Elie Honig said President Biden had tarnished his legacy by breaking his promise not to pardon his son Hunter.

Were you surprised?

When President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden, many people online and on air acted surprised. Of course the president had promised he would not do it. Of course he did do it. What is remarkable is that so much of the surprise seems genuine.

There is a Lucy-and-the-football quality to the responses in legacy media when Democrats do Democrat things. Legacy media is so deeply biased to the left at every level that it is probably impossible to course correct now, and only alternative media will thrive in the years ahead. Trust in legacy media, like trust in President Biden, ought to be a thing of the past now.

When President Biden set out to make himself FDR 2.0 with massive and unnecessary spending when he took office, and instead sparked an inflationary cycle unlike any we have seen since the late Jimmy Carter years, some people were genuinely surprised. It made no economic sense to do what he did, but Biden did what Democrats do: Spend money on favored constituencies. People like former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summer warned Biden, but Biden waived it off and unleashed inflation. To repeat: spending enormous amounts of money on favored groups is what Democrats do.

When President Biden pulled out of Afghanistan in such a precipitous way as to cause the collapse of the NATO-backed regime in disastrous fashion, followed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, people were surprised. Why? It is exactly what President Obama did........

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