Bill Otis is angry that we’ve put too few people to death in America — for crimes over the last two decades, minimum. [Never mind that we are the last post industrial Democratic nation to do so, at all.]

He’s mostly mad that Mr. Biden is morally opposed to the death penalty — and has chosen to use power we the people conferred upon him, to give 37 convicts… natural life without parole.

Note here that all his other would be arguments in favor of capital punishment fall to the wayside in these circumstances.

You see, any argument about “preserving deterrence”, in the handing down of the penalty still stands, because it will only ever be Democratic presidents who might commute what were otherwise capital sentences. So it would be preposterous to argue that murderers bank on ending up in front of a Democratic President after committing murder.

Bill lives in an amoral world, where if the people want it, by Gum, Tangerine 2.0 will give it to them, good and hard.

So apparently Bill’s political philosophy has defaulted to the point where all that matters to him is what does the least common denominator want.

Personally, I expect more of my elected leaders. And Tangerine 2.0 (like his boy Matt Gaetz) falls well short of the minimal mark. I strongly suspect Bill knows it, but is too much a coward to say that he would cross Tangerine about this.

That may be the saddest part of all of his essay today. He also failed to mention that Mr. Biden explicitly did not commute three other convicts, of the 40 awaiting death in the federal ststem, believing that their sentence of death… probably represents justice. I suspect that those three will ultimately not be put to death, even under Tangerine 2.0.

But we shall see.