One of my brothers is a master of irony. After the president had finished his talk, he (John) called me to opine (tongue in cheek) that we’d just heard the best speech since the Gettysburg Address. I responded, “Yes, she did rather well, didn’t she.” Sarah Huckabee had, in fact, given the best Republican response I could remember ever hearing. Biden’s speech, however, had been a disaster. He’d tried to make it sound like the economy was chugging along fine (even as about every Internet company had just finished announcing layoffs totaling many thousands). Even Disney was dumping tons of ...