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How Biden Blew It
It is tough to find a modern presidency that has collapsed as swiftly as this one.
How Biden Blew It | National Review
It is tough to find a modern presidency that has collapsed as swiftly as this one.
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It didn't have to be this way.
If he had wanted to, President Biden could have fulfilled the promises that he made during his campaign and set himself and his party up for a successful 2022. He could have ignored the hollow passions of Twitter and cable TV, lowered the temperatures that so mar our quotidian politics, and delivered the quiet, limited, competent leadership that he promised during his inconspicuous run for the office. Recognizing that his party enjoyed only the barest of congressional majorities, he could have scaled back his lofty ambitions and ensured that his own focus and the focus of the public at large were as tightly aligned as possible. He could have narrowed his initial COVID bill, eschewing the entreaties to go big and limiting the scope of its relief to the desperate alone. He could have made the bipartisan infrastructure bill a centerpiece, rather than an afterthought, of his first year. He could have grasped that, because federal power is so limited, his role in fighting the pandemic would be exclusively oratorical. He could have understood that people care deeply about illegal immigration and gotten serious about limiting it, even as he struck a kinder tone. Having realized that inflation was clearly not set to be “transitory,” he could have directed the sum of his efforts toward alleviating it. And, while he was doing all that, he could have paid attention to the details that his job throws up in abundance — particularly in the foreign-policy realm — and thereby avoided the catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan that drove a stake through his presidency within six months of his taking his oath. A little more humility, a greater willingness to say “no,” and a more acute understanding of why he won in the first instance would all have gone a long way.
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He vowed to be a “uniter,” but he has succeeded only in uniting the electorate against him. He professed to be a moderate but has lost the support of independents by two or three to one. He promised a return to normalcy, but he has somehow made things only stranger. He has continued the executive branch’s bipartisan assault on the Constitution, declined the chance to restore the presidency to a more modest place in our politics, and retained the destructive overpromising tendencies that have haunted so many of his predecessors. He is old, confused, inadequate, and, above all, demonstrably out of place. It did not take long after the inauguration for distracted Americans to ask, “Wait, that guy?”
This decline was not inevitable. Had he made better choices, Joe Biden might have spun his improbable rise to the White House into a basket full of gold. Instead, he has repeatedly smashed the loom. Biden is president because the Democrats didn’t want Bernie and the country didn’t want Trump. His presidency has failed because, drunk on his improbable ascent, he forgot that. Next year, he will have a short window within which to correct course.
If he misses it? Deluge.
Commentary:
It was blown from the start because no sane individual in this country actually believes in their heart that Biden really was elected.
Robert Gates said it well when he wrote in his book that Joe Biden has been on the wrong side of every foreign policy decision made.
Biden's presidency has within 11 months become, an unmitigated disaster.
His disapproval rate is now at 70%. It's proven by our 10% inflation, the Afghanistan debacle, his disastrous G7 meeting, his dealings with China and finally his latest dealing with Putin, who now threatens WWIII.
