Think back and try to remember a period in the past five years when it wasn't Infrastructure Week, that Groundhog Day-esque stretch of un-time which became the defining shorthand to describe the Trump administration's perpetual ineptitude when it came to getting a single goddamned thing done. By The New York Times' counting, there have been at least 10 infrastructure weeks, not one of which actually yielded anything close to progress toward fixing the nation's crumbling highways, bridges, and other fundamental armatures without which we'd be hopelessly screwed.
Now, as President Joe Biden stands at the cusp of actually delivering on a real, honest-to-god infrastructure deal that would change what had once been a long-standing joke into an actual, tangible legislative victory; his predecessor has reportedly chosen to revive the hoary cliche that is "infrastructure week" by actively working to derail what might become one of the most consequential government endeavors of the past half century.
