That didn’t take long. Less than a year into his presidency its become obvious Joe hasn’t the moxie to do the job and the Vice President is even worse.
Most recently, in Europe, he clownishly braced the pope as if he were a buddy at a Labor Day event, and he stumbled around the fringes of summit meetings like the “Where’s Waldo” character.
Recent events confirm the growing fears, or realization, of the American public that the presidency of Joe Biden is inept, inefficient, and — except for toxic aspects — inconsequential. In order to move on, an obituary can sort out the dispositive elements of the crisis.
History will record that this political grifter succeeded, to the extent he has succeeded — that is to say, finally able to sit behind the Resolute desk — largely due to two factors not of his own design.
The first propellant is the stranglehold of the press on public discourse. For two generations, the “national media” have shown their partisan fangs, running the gamut from liberal to radical. Biden has been the recipient of this largess and was spared any reasonable examination of his spectacular subnormality.
The second gift that fell in Biden’s lap was Donald Trump.
Making promises and keeping them, Trump exceeded the dreams of old conservatives and social traditionalists and left America built better in areas of the economy, foreign affairs, employment levels, and energy surpluses. Trump and his iconoclastic worldview, his modus operandi, the ways in which he “gets it” in contradistinction to accepted things as they are, all represented greater threats to the Establishment than any of his individual policy successes.
So Trump had to go. All the resources of media, politics, business, diplomacy, and statecraft were recruited. They succeeded. Trump went but he hasn’t gone far and he’s coming back…
Joe’s wind-up toy performances are of “default” modes, even from the Oval Office, and on display every day that he actually shows himself to the cameras.
Yet even wind-up toys wind down.
That Biden’s presidency deserves an obituary should inspire no joy. The administration is, after all, less than a year old. Its manifold and serious failures do not suggest that he should be removed from office, despite infractions like defying court orders over border matters and betrayals related to Afghanistan. To stop short of wishing for his early retirement also is political wisdom animated at least by the horrific prospect of a government that would be handed to Kamala Harris. Further, in the nightmare scenario, Nancy Pelosi would be next in line to pollute the Oval Office. So Biden has a form of security, even if Americans increasingly feel less secure with him serving as president.
At his most transparent, Biden ultimately seems to be too dense, rather than too honest, to be the “real deal” of his tired act (as much as a man with hair plugs, capped teeth, Botox treatments, and facelifts is able to be “genuine”). When he interrupts himself, perhaps 10 percent of the time in a canned speech and says, “I’m not kidding; this is no joke; I’m being serious here,” it is a giveaway that during the other 90 percent, he is kidding, joking, and not serious.
In politics, as in other spheres of life, old dogs seldom learn new tricks, even when elevated to the presidency of the United States. History has often been kind when previous second-rate men and political nonentities have “muddled through” or have been carried by combinations of competent allies or by circumstances. But this early in an administration, especially one beset by so many consequential challenges, it is proper to compose a frank political obituary and pray for some sort of adequacy to fill the presidential void. On the other hand, Biden shows how little America needs a president. Americans are getting along just fine despite an inadequate president.
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