Joe Biden is announcing victory. Joe beat the now-waning Omicron. Perhaps “alchemist” is
not quite the right word for Joe Biden. After all, he worked not with dross in his attempt to make gold. Rather he started with inherited golden policies on the economy, energy, the border, and foreign affairs and turned them into dross. Is Biden then really the “anti-Alchemist,” a delusional medievalist who does his best to turn gold into base metals?