First the delta variant of COVID-19 disrupted President Biden’s progress in trying to get Americans vaccinated and fully re-open the economy, which he ran on as his chief priority. Now there’s the omicron variant that threatens yet another severe setback against ending the pandemic. Considering how politicized vaccinations, masking and social distancing already is, can the White House develop any policy that will work?

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Also in this column …

•The $1.75 trillion Build Back Better social infrastructure bill, HR 5376, passed by the House of Representatives just before the chamber took its Thanksgiving week recess, now proceeds to the Senate, where West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin III wants to hold off on a vote until January. 

•Our flash debate on the question of whether the January 6 Capitol insurrection was “dress rehearsal” for the 2024 presidential election.

•Observations by Stephen Macaulay and Bryan Williams on Republican Glenn Youngkin’s Virginia gubernatorial election victory.