Sometimes your adversaries give you such a nice pitch that you can’t help but hit the ball out of the park.

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona gave us just such an easy home run yesterday.

Amazing. https://t.co/g5rxyBtKyI

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 27, 2023

What to say?

What can’t you say about this? How ignorant can you be? Especially when your job is literally to run the education system in the country?

First, let’s take a look at what Reagan actually said:

In other words, Cardona didn’t just misquote Reagan–we all do similar things, I am afraid, even I–but he got it exactly backward. Rather than suggesting that the government’s job is to lend a helping hand, Reagan was making the point that you should run fast and run hard when a government bureaucrat shows up to screw up something and make it much worse.

It should come as no surprise that Cardona got it so wrong. It is very on-brand for anybody in the Biden Administration to get something terribly stupid and do exactly the wrong thing to address a problem. It’s difficult to name something that has gotten better under Biden, and easy to rattle off a list of things that this administration has made immeasurably worse.

Take, for example, Joe Biden’s now-famous quote “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore” when defending his stimulus proposals. Reporters were asking about the inflationary impact of pouring trillions of new dollars into the economy and Biden scoffed, saying “Milton Friedman isn’t running the show anymore.”

Yeah, well, after 3 years of skyrocketing prices he should have been, President Biden. We wouldn’t be in this mess right now.

The arrogance that oozes out of these putzes pores smells as bad as a locker room filled with overweight men trying to lose weight by overdoing it in the gym. They are arrogant, ignorant, and almost always wrong about what to do to make things better. They are the George Costanzas of government policy. They should just formulate a policy and then do the opposite of whatever they decide.

It is striking how confident this crowd is despite all the evidence that they are royally screwing things up. The entire country is screaming at the administration that they don’t like the direction of the country, and the geniuses in Washington decided to double down and brag about what they have done.

They assume they are smarter than everybody else and no amount of feedback can change their minds. Instead, they scream “disinformation” and do everything they can to deny the obvious. Often enough, the MSM tries its best to back them up, as with this Washington Post article that argues that Americans are too stupid to know what is good for them, and that we are just puppets of disinformation about the roaring economy and our rapidly increasing wealth.

It’s laughable, really. Taylor Lorenz and Jeff Stein write an entire article in which the bottom line is that inflation perceptions are driven by misinformation that should be suppressed.

The White House official said the administration is working with TikTok creators to tell positive stories of Biden’s economic stewardship, while also working with social media platforms to counter misinformation.

“Folks have bought burgers at the wrong price throughout the history of time, and that includes economists. At all other times, we would look at our burger and our bill and say, ‘Wow, I wish I’d done more addition and subtraction,’” said Justin Wolfers, an economist at the University of Michigan. “At the present moment, though, we instead say, ‘Wow, I hate this economy.’ Folks are viewing everything they buy through that lens.”

Censorship! That’s the ticket! If we can only shut people up they won’t notice their money disappearing faster than water out of a popped balloon.

The Biden Administration and their MSM handmaidens are convinced they are so much smarter and better informed than the rest of us, but the reality is that they understand reality as well as Cardona understood Reagan’s point.

My Townhall colleague once-removed Kurt Schlichter wrote a great piece about the upcoming election, in which he argued that it would likely be fought between a guy who can’t win (Biden) and a guy who will lose (Trump). In other words, the choice for many people is between a guy they think always makes things worse and a guy whom they despise.

If this is accurate–and I think it is–I strongly suggest you vote for the guy you despise, not the incompetent and senile boob.

What a country.