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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so what were his policies that would’ve been popular with the American people?
was it...
1) drag queen story hour?
2) gays and trans everywhere?
3) DEI that put non-qualified people in jobs over riding qualified people?
4) EVs to replace ICE vehicles and the ending of petroleum used for electricity, heating, transportation etc.?
5) spending 2T over and above tax revenues on pet projects that rewarded his donor base and drove us further into debt?
6) degrading the dollar to the point that other countries were getting on the bandwagon to drop the dollar as world currency?
7) fantastic strategic withdrawal from Afghanistan?
8) degrading our military with woke policies?
9) pushing for policies putting men in women’s prisons, women’s and girls’ locker rooms and women’s sport?
10) opening our borders to allow 15M illegals into this country and shipping them all over the country?
11) support for the defund the police movement?
12) more gun control?
13) selective prosecution of his opponents?
14) covid protocols that locked down the country and caused massive deaths and massive unemployment?
15) turning the justice department into his own crony legal force?
16) pushing the FBI to go after people who complained at school board meetings?
17) prosecuting people who prayed at abortion clinics?
I’m sure there are many more I missed that could add greatly to this list.
FJB
James Clyburn is “cutting edge” for Democrats nowadays. No joke!
Odd how Kamala’s “style” didn’t lend itself to the public mood either. It’s almost as if the “substance” (or lack thereof) of these two clowns mattered the most.
Yes...if you mean low inflation...low gas prices...no wars..net exporter of agricultural products...oil and gas.
That’s a good list of Biden’s accomplishments.
“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,”
That’s it. Biden and Garland were too gentle on Trump. There should have been 4x as much lawfare 4x as fast and everything would have been OK.
×3
Also, petty, vindictive, duplicitous, thin-skinned, and fatuous
And more...what an egregios POS for this country to endure...and that goes for his handlers too. And we know who most of them are.
IMO-—WE WILL BE FINDING MORE ILLEGAL FINANCIAL STUFF ABOUT BIDEN FOR 30 +++ YEARS MORE.
Biden regime’s style of corrupt neo fascism is not a “Vison of Democracy”
Don’t think I’ve ever read a more sinister piece of propaganda.
Clyburn is trying to paint over and distract from the obvious. Joe’s a vegetable. These last four years have been Weekend At Bernie’s.
So was Harris’ campaign style or substance what with Eminem,Beyonce, Cardi b et all? Trump was and is substance!
Your mob was weighed in the balance and found to be pathetic!
Lonely battle?
Hah.
This is drjill and Hunter’s crackbrained scheme to
enhance their futures tainted by their dismal exits
Joe is forever trash.
much of it bipartisan,
Only minimally so, enough to claim the label.
His vaunted legislation has been an ongoing and unmitigated disaster. Trillions in debt for no measurable gain. I mean, 7 electric vehicle chargers?
FJB is a grifter and a criminal. He has been Zerohissef’s 3rd term without the pretty words that fooled/thrilled so many people like the writers at the WP.
Unfortunately, some of the cult members (themselves, without a place to go) will support him and his BS forever. The whole crowd of misfits that put Joe in office and struggled daily (hourly) to prop him up, needs to disappear right along with him. This includes his demented, media whore wife
democrats lie, that’s what they do, mostly they lie to themselves, their capacity for self delusion is off the charts.
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