A banal failure of a State of the Union

The best thing that can be said about President Joe Biden’s second State of the Union address last night is that a record-low number of people wasted their time watching it. It was a laundry list of nanny statism, promising that not even the tiniest detail of people's lives will be free from federal interference — not “resort fees” nor “targeted advertising” on social media.

Biden talked of big-ticket items as well. He rehashed every element of his dreadful “Build Back Better" agenda, from new spending on government-run daycare to...