Take President Biden’s Build Back Better bill. The media covered it exhaustively. Every twist and turn was documented in dramatic fashion. Every utterance from Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, the decisive votes, was treated like the delivery of the stone tablets from Mount Sinai. But after months and months of intense coverage of the legislative process, polls showed that even the most engaged Democrats didn’t have a freaking clue what was in the bill or how it would impact their lives.
