It is difficult to express how terrible President Joe Biden does his job. Comparisons to Jimmy Carter are pervasive, but trite—and too flattering to Carter. Perhaps a more apt (and dark) analogy, given how civic strife has reached a fever pitch, is to James Buchanan, historians’ typical consensus pick for worst president ever.
Indeed, to fully capture the absolute horror that is this senile near-octogenarian’s presidential swan song would be a Herculean task, better suited for a David McCullough-style biography than a column. Consider a few recent examples for your purposes, despite the difficulty in narrowing down from such large samples.
In late March, in a combative speech in Warsaw, Biden veered off-script and announced that Russian kingpin Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.” There is a sordid history of such meddlesome talk when it comes to U.S. foreign policy, encapsulated by John Bolton’s shockingly candid on-air admission to Jake Tapper this week that he has “helped plan coups d’etat.” Biden, in Poland, thus explicitly called for regime change against the long-standing leader of a nuclear-armed hegemon. David P. Goldman pointed out that many Cold War-era U.S. presidents had never explicitly provoked the Kremlin. The White House immediately—and implausibly—attempted to walk back, and downplay, Biden’s clarion utterance.
In May, for the third time in under a year, the White House similarly had to walk back a Biden claim about the U.S.’ willingness to go to war to defend Taiwan against a possible—perhaps impending—People’s Liberation Army invasion. Biden was asked by Fumio Kishida (the Japanese Prime Minister) if Uncle Sam would protect Taipei in the event of an invasion by Beijing. Biden answered “yes”—botching the actual commitment the U.S. made in the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979, under which the U.S. is merely required to provide prophylactic defensive resources to Taipei, not to actually defend it in the event of an invasion. Although the White House attempted to make a concession, the damage was already done. Biden had made nearly identical comments last August/October; turns out, the old adage that you can’t teach an old dog a new trick is true.
Biden arrived in Israel this week for his first Middle East trip. Upon landing at Ben Gurion Airport, Biden stepped off Air Force One and quickly asked his aides, “What am I doing now?” Shortly thereafter, Biden stumbled his way to a microphone and pronounced his desire to “keep alive the truth and honor of the Holocaust.” The following day, during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, Biden alluded to a “list” of preapproved—and presumably friendly—reporters That his team had prepared for him beforehand. This was less than a week after an embarrassing flub back in Washington, when Biden read off a teleprompter, Ron Burgundy-style: “end of quote, repeat the line.” And thatThis was just a few months after the president fell from a stationary bike.
These are not mere frivolous “gaffes,” the sort of thing one can laugh off. These are terrible misstatements that have grave diplomatic and geopolitical implications. There is clearly something wrong with the President of the United States. Even the New York Times, which for former Biden boss Barack Obama functioned as Democratic Party Pravda, ran a recent piece entitled, “At 79, Biden Is Testing the Boundaries of Age and the Presidency.” A mere three days later, Michelle Goldberg, a reliably progressive columnist for The Gray Lady, entitled her own column, “Joe Biden Is Too Old to Be President Again.”
The solution is clear.
The Delaware-based dolt boasts a 38.7% job approval rating according to the widely-cited RealClearPolitics index. This puts him at 17.2% below the poverty line. In the modern history and evolution of opinion polling, that 38.7% figure is historically low at this point in a presidency. Another historic number, the 9.1% annualized consumer index inflation increase last month (which was already a record four-decade-high), may partially explain this abysmal statistic. Inflation is also affecting very popular foods: Eggs are up 33.1% per year, butter 26.3%, and chicken 18.6%. Average national gasoline prices now at an all-time high. Joe Biden, the onetime hardscrabble “working man” from Scranton, Pennsylvania, has overseen catastrophic inflation, disproportionately harming the very lower- and middle-income voters his political party purports to care about.
At this point, with even the Times turning on him, Biden is not going to be the Democrats’ presidential nominee in 2024. The only question that matters is whether he should resign now. He should. Kamala Harris, as dangerous as she might be as president of the United States, would be slightly less likely to allow us to get into World War III with her tongue.
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