President Joe Biden and his team are trapped in their own delusions about what his legacy will be when the reality is that Biden will never be remembered as anything more than a failure.
Biden’s team and supporters flocked to the Washington Post to lament that voters just did not respect his “substance,” as Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), a chief supporter, put it, or that voters just didn’t understand his “decisions and vision,” as his supporters at the Washington Post put it.
The most hilarious form of coping came from national security adviser Jake Sullivan, who said, “The president has been operating on a time horizon measured in decades, while the political cycle is measured in four years,” and “How to govern at this moment to set the U.S. up for long-term success has one answer, and how to govern to deal with midterm and presidential elections in the very short term might have a different answer.”
What has Biden done, though, to help the United States in the long term? His terrible, botched withdrawal from Afghanistan got U.S. military personnel killed, undermined the credibility of American promises on the world stage (among NATO and local allies, in this case, the Afghans), and let the Taliban reclaim power. That withdrawal emboldened Russia to attack Ukraine and, combined with Biden’s general weaknesses and his desire to play nice with Iran, emboldened Hamas and other Iranian affiliates to attack Israel.
As is usual for Sullivan as a member of Biden’s terrible national security and foreign policy team, his comments don’t have any basis in reality. If anything, Biden jeopardized American standing to operate on a four-year political cycle, burning through the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to try and drive down gas prices that soared because of Biden’s progressive spending spree.
That is the same progressive spending spree designed to set the country up for an environmentalist’s dream future, which included spending $7.5 million on building electric vehicle charging stations while only building seven of them in two years. Maybe that is what Sullivan meant when he said Biden’s “time horizon” is measured in decades.
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Biden will not be remembered as Sullivan, Clyburn, or his team want him to be. He will be remembered as a failed president who won in 2020 only because of a once-in-a-century pandemic, sent the economy spiraling, watched meekly as the world’s worst actors lit the world on fire on his watch, and ushered President-elect Donald Trump back into the White House through his failed policies and the cover-up of his deteriorated mental faculties. Even Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss is on Biden, who picked her in the first place as his running mate and then anointed her to replace him in the race despite her being a terrible politician in her own right.
Biden’s presidency was reckless, weak, and toxically partisan, a reflection of his own characteristics in his lifetime in politics. No one believes the man who couldn’t function past 8 p.m. was making his political decisions looking decades into the future. It was obvious to everyone that Biden was obsessed with reelection and empowering a progressive movement whose influence over the rest of the country rapidly decreased during his failing presidency. He sacrificed long-term American strength for attempted short-term political gains, which he predictably failed at achieving.