Michael Smerconish’s question of the week was a great one. Is Joe Biden’s presidency doomed?
I would vote no, but with a caveat attached…it will be doomed if he continues to attempt to govern for the 20% on the far left who voted for him in the recent election. He’ll be done just like Jimmy Carter.
History should be a teacher. I’m stunned a political survivor like Joe Biden has allowed his presidency to be kidnapped. Joe Biden is a moderate. He was saved in South Carolina by James Clyburn because Clyburn was politically smart enough to know Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete B had no chance whatsoever of appealing to registered Independents who now make up more than 40% of registered voters.
Recent presidential history tells us Reagan, Clinton, and Obama all centered their presidencies after or before the mid-terms of their first term. The Democrats are getting ready to be historically eviscerated in the upcoming mid-terms just as Reagan, Clinton, and Obama were in their first term mid-terms. The same could be said for Bush 43, but that was perhaps different because of 9/11 and the two historically doomed wars created during that time frame.
I’m an Independent who was previously what I would describe as a socially liberal Republican because I in fact think you should have to work if able and not be given everything by the federal government. I know…how stupid could I be? But the difference with me and the Trump people is that I do believe the federal government is needed to in fact act as a societal check and balance.
My angst with Donald Trump is fairly clear. I think he’s a spoiled trust fund brat who’s never given a shit about any other human in his life. I think he’s punk who was basically given political oxygen by the fact the GOP field in 2016 was so incredibly weak and pathetic.
When I as an Independent voted for Joe Biden it was for primarily one reason… that reason being Joe Biden wasn’t Donald Trump as a human being and I hoped Biden would govern as a level-headed moderate.
As the pandemic and the economy go…Joe Biden’s chances will go is my take. Despite all the roil…you know what the Dow did in 2021…it went up 28.5%. Jobs are available everywhere. Our economy has changed. It will continue to change even more. Oil and the price of gasoline has always been a volatile market. Crisis begats opportunities for those smart enough to visualize the New Next Big Things human consumption-wise.
People have already forgotten the exit from Afghanistan. What they should never forget though in fact was the historical entry into Afghanistan and why we were so stupid to do so in the first place. Plus…this was Trump’s call as well—so for those in his camp who can read this won’t be an issue in 2024 because Biden was basically following what Trump had put in place before he left office.
Remember what James Carvelle always told Bill Clinton…’It’s always about the economy, stupid.’
So if I were Joe Biden what I would do is call Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema and see if I could work out a deal to get some things done on… 1 voting rights legislation, 2 a pragmatic approach to salvaging the Union per Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and 3 coming to terms with the fact Joe Biden was elected POTUS for the very reason he’s not Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, or Pete B.
Joe Biden wasn’t even on the leader board when James Clyburn altered American presidential history.
That may sound insensitive on my part, but again go back to that South Carolina primary when James Clyburn saved Joe Biden and in fact saved the Democratic Party from its own far left wing.
There…I just wrote on my sleepy little underground blog what no one in the Democratic Party seems to be willing to say in public on January 15th, 2022.