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Joe Biden’s inner circle put on a full-court press on Saturday to try to prevent Jimmy Carter dying vindicated in the knowledge that he was not the worst president in American history. In a front-page article in the Washington Post on the lowest readership day of the week, Biden’s advisers tried to shore up their future employability as much as they tried to make their soon-to-be former boss look good (Joe Biden’s lonely battle to sell his vision of American democracy – The Washington Post). My colleague Nick Arama covered some of the highlights on Saturday, as well as the preview we got on Friday.
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BACKGROUND:
NEW: Biden Has Two More Truly Warped Regrets About His Time in the WH
Let’s do a quick run-through of Biden’s vision.
Biden was a victim of valuing policy over style.
“I have come to the conclusion in recent days that I’m wrong about that,” the South Carolina Democrat, 84, remembers telling Biden. “The new environment that we currently live in — style seems to carry the day more than substance.”
“Your style,” he told the president, “does not lend itself well to the environment we’re currently in.”
Clyburn’s conclusion — which was shared by anxious Democrats in the months before the president ended his reelection bid — undermined Biden’s theory of presidential leadership. After Donald Trump’s ascent, Biden believed that he just needed to show Americans that traditional democracy still worked — by listening to experts, working with Republicans, passing popular policies — and voters would rally around him.
If there was any substance to Biden, and that is a very arguable position, it was his utter contempt for half the country. He set about corrupting federal law enforcement (more on that in a moment) and enslaving the executive branch to the forces of racial division and, indeed, hatred.
Biden was too deep a thinker to be appreciated by the lumpenproletariat.
“The president has been operating on a time horizon measured in decades, while the political cycle is measured in four years,” Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, said in an interview.
Sullivan added that Biden’s accomplishments by their nature will take a long time to bear fruit. “How to govern at this moment to set the U.S. up for long-term success has one answer, and how to govern to deal with midterm and presidential elections in the very short term might have a different answer,” he said. “The president went with doing the things that really put America in a strong position.”
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This may be the most ludicrous item in the article and can best be viewed as Jake Sullivan interviewing for a think tank job or university faculty position. At best, Biden’s actions were shortsighted and focused on immediate gratification, like his whining about not putting his signature on COVID relief check; “During the same speech at Brookings, Biden said he had been “stupid” not to sign his name to COVID stimulus checks that were distributed to Americans early in his term.”
He larded on trillions of dollars in national debt, increased inflation, and increased prices faster than inflation. He left nearly 8% of the American workforce either unemployed, underemployed, or checked out of the workforce. He opened the borders to a deluge of illegal immigrants, including a large number of criminals. Women and children in this migrant stream were left vulnerable to sex trafficking with such panache one almost thinks Hunter Biden was running the show.
In foreign affairs, Biden actively supported Iran in its attempt to become a regional hegemon. He kowtowed to Russia and China. We’ve heard their defense before. They believe that eventually, Russia, Iran, and China will become partners with the US, and so we don’t want to do anything to make them really upset. China remains unchallenged in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Western Pacific, and the Caribbean. American diplomatic power is at an all-time low, virtually guaranteeing future wars to solve problems that diplomacy should have fixed.
Nothing Biden has done economically or diplomatically has any long-range purpose that makes America stronger.
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The news media kept Biden from getting credit for all he did.
He has also mused on changes in the media, arguing that he did not get enough credit for his accomplishments, especially on the economy. But in citing examples like Richard M. Nixon’s 1960 debate against John F. Kennedy, Biden has suggested that, like Nixon, he has struggled to adjust to a new media landscape.
It would have been impossible for Biden to have had a more fawning and lickspittle media even if he’d paid for them. The undeniable signs of Biden’s mental deterioration were hidden from the American public in a style reminiscent of FDR’s invisible wheelchair and Soviet airbrushing of pictures.
BACKGROUND:
The Real Cheap Fakes Reveal Themselves – RedState
Joe Biden Is the Cheap Fake – RedState
NEW: More Info About Biden’s Handling of Cabinet Meetings Is Raising Eyebrows – RedState
Biden’s economic accomplishments were a non-stop series of happy-face preliminary reports followed weeks later by “revised” reports showing small gains or even losses.
What Biden doesn’t talk about is how Trump, who had none of the official levers of power and faced an unrelentingly hostile media, was able to get his message out.
His plan to throw Trump in jail failed.
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The one part of this story that can’t be talked about enough is Biden’s admission that there was a political motive in the multiple prosecutions of President Trump.
In private, Biden has also said he should have picked someone other than Merrick Garland as attorney general, complaining about the Justice Department’s slowness under Garland in prosecuting Trump, and its aggressiveness in prosecuting Biden’s son Hunter, according to people familiar with his comments.
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Biden was persuaded, and some Democrats believe the decision had devastating results. Had the Justice Department moved faster to prosecute Trump for allegedly seeking to overturn the 2020 election and mishandling classified documents, they say, the former president might have faced a politically damaging trial before the election. (Others blame the Supreme Court and a Trump-appointed judge in Florida for repeatedly siding with the former president and delaying the cases; the Justice Department declined to comment.)
It is rather incredible to see in print that part of Biden’s political strategy to win reelection was to jail his opponent. This should get Biden, Merrick Garland, and Jack Smith long prison sentences and see them and their families financially broken in the process.
Robert Gates was right.
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates once said of Biden, “I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.” We can add economic and domestic policy issues and an additional decade to that list.
Despite the deeply dishonest effort underway to declare Biden the 14th greatest US president—Obama was 7th, Clinton 12th, and Reagan 16th—nothing will change the fact that Biden left the nation weaker economically, domestically, diplomatically, and militarily than he’d received it. The voters turned him out of office in a near landslide because they could see what our elites refuse to admit.
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