In recent months, the Biden administration has unveiled new positions and policies that clearly pander to core constituencies in the run-up to a November election in which the stakes, for both President Biden and the country as a whole, are as high as they have ever been. The problem is that some of these policies are quite bad — even dangerous. The implicit rationale is that the ends — denying former president Donald Trump another four years in office — justify the means. To say as much is to restate the eternal dilemma of those who seek political power. How should we think about it in this case?
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