Everyone’s in a tizzy over Joe Biden. He can’t win, it seems. His press conference at the NATO summit apparently did little to quell the disturbance in the wake of The Debate.
One public figure after another, besides Gretchen Whitmer, is recommending that Joe hang it up. But Joe is doing his best Trump imitation, digging in his heels, maybe reacting as one who realizes the alignment against him is growing louder and stronger and he refuses to buy it. It’s difficult to see how this groundswell just goes away.
There’s a growing inevitability in the air, and it doesn’t surround the thinking that this is going to quiet down and go back to the way things were a while ago. It’s all quite sad and hard to watch, and it’s not doing anything for the Dems’ chances in November, at least at this point.
I don’t know what’s going on in Biden’s head, but maybe there’s a stark realization that his political life might be ending differently than he envisioned. Perhaps he sees it all slipping away, or is disappointed that so many seem to be giving up on him. It seems it won’t be enough for him that he was in office when the bleeding was stopped after a nightmare Trump administration that dealt in coarseness and incompetence, and grossly mishandled a pandemic. Biden oversaw popular legislation that was passed into law, he restored a certain faith in our pacts and agreements with nations around the world. He’s taken global warming somewhat seriously. He was what the doctor ordered after the aberration that was Trump.
But now there’s worry that he’s losing his edge and becoming more detriment than ace in the hole. He was never supposed to be more than a bridge, and now, disappointingly, it appears he and his allies are circling the wagons and just getting greedy, taking it personally.
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