Pride Goeth Before a Withdrawal | City Journal
It s said that no president can be properly judged until 30 years have elapsed from the time he left office. By that rule, Joe Biden cannot be correctly evaluated until 2054 or thereabouts.
For the moment, it would be well to remember that the incredible mess of American politics in the summer of 2024 is the doing not only of the egregious Donald Trump but also of a stubborn, prideful, selfish Joe Biden and his wife Jill and the rest of the Bidens, and his closest aides. In this debacle, Biden s laurels are withered; he does not deserve much glory. In the wake of his reluctant departure from the race, he leaves a squalor of conspiracy theories and the scandal of his having persisted for so long. Conservative historians will write him off as an incompetent, while progressives after overpraising his accomplishments will recall him as the one who left the Democratic Party in chaos and, as may be, delivered the country to the carnivore Donald Trump.
Whatever the achievements or disasters of Biden s administration, he will be condemned for his profound irresponsibility in placing his party and his country in jeopardy. The first reactions to his capitulation make it sound heroic. The truth is that the man does not know how to make a graceful exit whether from Afghanistan or from a presidential race.
The verdict will be harsh on his wife Jill and his closest advisers and his doctors because for so long they concealed his deepening disability. Laws will be written or should be making it a crime to hide the truth of a president s physical and mental condition from the American people.
Lance Morrow.
There hasn’t been a President I would put in charge of my dogs, let alone the country, since Ronald Reagan. Whether Trump would be any different remains to be seen. J.D. Vance seems to be a dog man, though I don’t care much for his politics.