The current gridlock in Congress is frustrating for Democrats who support the extremely expansive domestic spending legislation of President Joe Biden. Note: not all Democrats do back this latest big spending blowout.

The White House strives to exploit the situation with the public, but so far, the nation at large is not buying what is being peddled to them. The distinctive economic and political circumstances that permitted Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson to succeed with ambitious legislative agendas simply do not exist today.

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Arthur I. Cyr is Clausen Distinguished Professor at Carthage College and author of “After the Cold War” (NYU Press and Macmillan). Readers can wrote to him at acyr@carthage.edu.

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