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Biden will but a firebreathing trustbuster like Lina Khan in charge of the FTC, but he’ll also life-appoint federal judges like Jacqueline Scott Corley, who will seize on any flimsy excuse to confound Khan’s attempts to protect the American people from predatory monopolies. Most of Biden’s coalition wants pizza, but a powerful group of insiders wants hamburgers. Biden’s given us all a pizzaburger, and he views the fact that we are all equally dissatisfied with his solution as evidence that he’s struck a Solomonic compromise. The country is on fire. It’s baking. It’s drowning. We’re running out of time. Republican bosses don’t want the same thing as their base, but they’re delivering it anyway, because that base has jettisoned “my party right or wrong,” in favor of “we’d rather blow this whole thing up than back someone who sells us out.” The Democrats have started to fear their base — a little. But they still mostly hate us. Until and unless they know that they have to earn our support, the best we can hope for is pizzaburgers — heavy on the burger.