Why We Blind Ourselves to the Biden Scandal

From fentanyl on city sidewalks to Hunter Biden’s laptop, we Americans are getting accustomed to averting our gaze.

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President Biden and his son Hunter Biden at the White House on April 10, 2023. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
IRA STOLL
IRA STOLL

What explains the lack of outrage and attention in certain circles to the scandal of the Biden family’s corruption? It’s a puzzle. It’s understandable to be skeptical about what are billed as bombshell disclosures in the closing days of a campaign. The evidence has only mounted since then.

Yet certain publications and broadcasters and their highly educated audiences have remained reluctant, long past the 2020 election, to reckon with the emerging reality that President Biden’s son was selling foreign customers access to his father and through him to the government.

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