In Lewis Carroll’s "Through the Looking-Glass," published more than 150 years ago as the sequel to "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland," everything is reversed, like your reflection in a mirror. Running keeps you stationary, walking away from someone brings you closer to them and inanimate objects like chess pieces are alive.
Recent political and economic events in the United States have sometimes created the same disorienting impression. In a move worthy of Machiavelli, Democratic Party elders, led by former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, deposed a declining President Joe Biden and anointed Vice President Kamala Harris as the party’s nominee for president. Yet it was only last year that Harris registered the worst approval rating of any vice president in the history of modern polling.
At the time, Republicans were duly ridiculing her “word salad” responses to unscripted questioning and calling attention to her radical previous policy positions. It was obvious to everyone why she had ended her 2020 presidential campaign in 2019, before any votes were cast. But following the surprisingly successful launch of her new campaign, she is now slightly ahead in the polls. The left-leaning mainstream media is treating her like the second coming of Joan of Arc, imputing to her Mother Teresa’s righteousness and Margaret Thatcher’s steeliness.
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