President Joe Biden ’s decision to issue a sweeping pardon of his son Hunter Biden has set off backlash from Republicans and some Democrats. Although President-elect Donald Trump did not quite lean into criticism of Biden’s pardon in the way his fellow Republicans did, his campaign team did seize on the decision to raise funds.

President Joe Biden isn’t the only one to pull a shocking and sudden reversal on pardoning his son Hunter Biden. So too, it seems, has the Democratic base. As the dust settles on a pardon that the president and his White House repeatedly assured would not happen,