“Keep Calm and Buy American”

President Biden’s first SOTU proves he hasn’t forgotten the moderate majority.

President Joe Biden smiles as he walks past members of the press after his remarks on the December jobs report, Friday, January 7, 2022, in the State Dining Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith)

For Joe Biden and other hard-working Democrats like him, the Curse of the Moderates is alive and well and plaguing both houses of the U.S. government.

A really good moderate Democrat is always too conservative for the progressives in the party; too progressive for the conservatives. Doing a par job, even…