Posted on 12/28/2024 6:30:55 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Earlier this year, Rep. James E. Clyburn met President Joe Biden at the White House to deliver a stern message: Biden had to find a way to revitalize his flagging campaign. Clyburn, who had been pivotal to Biden’s 2020 victory, also made a confession about his own long-standing belief that substance is more important than style in politics.
“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.
He succeeded in Phase One of his plan, enacting legislation, much of it bipartisan, to reshape the nation’s infrastructure, revive the semiconductor industry and fight climate change. But Phase Two never happened. The truth of Biden’s presidency is that he failed in what was by his own account his most important mission: making Trump’s presidency seem like an aberration.
“He governed through traditional processes and institutions,” said Julian E. Zelizer, a presidential historian at Princeton University. “It didn’t change the picture of where he started, this anger in the electorate toward institutions, this support for a pretty radical conservative vision that Trump embodied. It didn’t do anything to end the very intense polarization that exists in this country.”
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Democracy dies with Democrats.
Exactly.
What was Biden’s greatest argument in this philosophical debate? “Corn Pop for whores rights?”
FJB.
+1
I'm trying to think of what era a pants-pooping dementia patient was stylish.
Arrest, imprison and bankrupt your political opponents? Arrest their lawyers too, so there is no legal defense allowed? Have your secret police shut down opposition news sources? And when all else fails just count your own ballots multiple times until you have a bigger total?
His “Vision”??? LOL, the only goals he has are 1) destroy the USA, 2) line his pockets and 3) keep his family and the Deep State cronies / henchmen out of prison. He is the most filthy, most corrupt, slimiest POTUS in the history of the nation.
They just don’t get it. And frankly, Biden and Harris calling the opposition a bunch of thugs is such a level of projection that it’s amazing Trump didn’t win more electoral votes.
The entire US Government has been set up over the years to loot the US treasury.
Biden was only the Political Don of the criminal enterprise.
What utter garbage this DNC wet dream is.
In a backhanded way I have to thank them for fracturing their own base.
Possibly permanently but it is up to us to capitalize on it.
Democracy: that’s where the president gives away billions of taxpayer dollars to foreign countries for a little pocket money under the table.
“Democracy?”
Like millions of nameless faceless unelected unaccountable bureaucrats making rules and regulations behind closed doors and an all powerful armed federal enforcement agency to force compliance?
And also think about why the democrats want our guns so badly. Every tyrant had to force their personal version of “democracy” through the killing of millions of their subjects. Stalin. Pol Pot. Mao. Hitler. Castro. There is ZERO doubt in my mind ObamaBiden would commit the same atrocities if all Americans were disarmed.
Insufficient wokeness met leftist party unity, met voters that can’t stand both.
You forhot “pervert”
Forgot
Forgive me but the list of applicable pejorative adjectives for Joe Biden would give me carpal-tunnel syndrome if I typed them all.
I appreciate the help! :)
BINGO!
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