Since 2021, this author has written a total of 10 articles for Breitbart News about the similarities between President Joe Biden and President Jimmy Carter.
This eleventh work will probably be the last. Now, the Biden administration will be left to the historians. Historians will note another commonality between the 46th and 39th presidents: they both served one-term terms. (You can see all of my previous work here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.)
Biden's presidency began with a bang. He had great ambitions to become another Franklin D. Roosevelt, enacting big, bold, and left-wing New Deal-type programs, some of which he passed. .
In his not-so-subtle self-assessment, Biden predicted he would be remembered as a better person. consequential He is the first black president to serve a second term, Barack Obama, and the man who selected Biden as vice president in 2008, propelling him to the pinnacle of national prominence.
But in return, Biden harbored considerable jealousy and even resentment toward the 44th president, who had hoped that Hillary Clinton, not Biden, would succeed him in 2016. , Biden is There was always a scar on his shoulder The size of Delaware.
President Barack Obama walks with Vice President Joe Biden along the White House Colonnade on February 3, 2010 (Official White House Photo: Pete Souza)
President Barack Obama speaks on the phone with Vice President Joe Biden in the Oval Office on August 31, 2013. (Official White House photo: Pete Souza)
Indeed, many politicians have high-octane personalities. In Biden's case, his ambitions have continued to swell for more than half a century. The legendary poll hound won a total of 10 general elections. First in the New Castle County Legislature in 1970, then six times in the Senate, twice as vice president, and then as president in 2020 — despite being elected twice, he won the general election. The Democratic presidential nomination contests in 1988 and 2008 failed, and come to think of it, there was a third failure in 2024.
Biden's relentless pursuit of fame and power makes it all the more remarkable that his presidency is ending in a whimper. He was forced to abandon his re-election bid in July, but now believes Trump, not Kamala Harris, will be his successor in the Oval Office.
Harris still lost. Biden doesn't seem to care., his wife tootoo much — the couple widely distributes blame for stalling plans for a second period. What is interesting for historians is that from the beginning of Biden's presidency, Western aides supported Harris. she was Depicted in leaks as a fragile dwarf. Perhaps all that sniping and slugging was to be expected. Either way, it hurt Harris and made her sudden ascension as a presidential candidate seem, well, weird.
President Joe Biden walks along the White House Colonnade with Vice President Kamala Harris on May 26, 2023 (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
President Joe Biden speaks on the phone in the Oval Office on October 10, 2023, with Vice President Kamala Harris listening in. (Official White House Photo: Adam Schultz)
But whatever their interpersonal feelings, Biden and Harris will be intertwined in history. under heading“How Harris’s loss could negatively impact Biden’s legacy.” new york times Observed:
Among his closest allies, Mr. Biden will be remembered as the man who defeated Mr. Trump in 2020 and ended his re-election campaign in the national interest. But many Democrats are already casting him in a far different and far less flattering light: as a one-term president who will set the party on a path to failure in 2024. . . Trump's return to power is now set to become a central part of Biden's legacy.
In the article, presidential historian Douglas Brinkley cut into the fray and took aim at Biden, saying, “He was supposed to be the bridge to the next generation of Democrats, the bridge to the transition.” said. But instead, Mr. Brinkley continued, Biden “blown up a bridge.” ah.
Indeed, the first days of Biden's presidency will likely be spent making eerie and vitriolic accusations, similar to those of the Biden and Harris campaigns. trade condemnation Criticizes Democratic Party's defeat with former Obama officials join the crossfire.
But future chroniclers are likely to place much of the blame on Biden. He campaigned in 2020 as “Middle Class Joe,” or “Scranton Joe,” or “Amtrak Joe,” but once in office, he ruled to the left, especially on cultural issues. .
His Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, famously refused to be confronted with the simple question, “What is a woman?” And his flamboyant transgender appointees, one to the Department of Public Health and the other to the Department of Energy, formed a bizarre organization. visual tableau. These were not the faces Central America was looking for.
All of these oddities help explain why Democrats lost its former base Working-class voters include non-college graduates and voters whose households earn less than $100,000 a year.
Many of the straight-laced workers are Hispanic, and they share the same views as other workers who support normalization. In Texas, for example, Democrats had hoped to upset vulnerable Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, but Mr. Cruz fought back fiercely and blitzed his Democratic challenger. anti-trans advertising and dig into the discussion.
Then, Gilberto Hinojosa, chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, warned If Democrats fail to do justice to transgender issues, he said, “there will be long-term political consequences.” Because of his frankness, Hinojosa was criticized. His fellow Democrats, still fascinated by transgender people, forced him to retract and apologize.
Well, this is what the Democratic Party looks like today, even in Texas. But Hispanic men who aren't on the party's payroll will continue to think that boys shouldn't be in women's locker rooms.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott investigates Democratic chaos explained In fact, why the Lone Star State is getting even redder: “One big reason is that Hispanics in Texas believe that Republicans align with their values of faith, family, freedom, and free enterprise.” They support capitalism and policies that promote energy production. There are no men in women's sports.” [emphasis added]
In fact, the recognition that transgenderism has brought It hurt Democrats across the country. It has to be woven into Biden's legacy because he was a president who issued executive orders from day one. executive order and other statutes which obligate us to transcend all.
Is this really what Biden wanted? Did he really think being transgender was a good idea? Probably not. Still, Biden remained flexible and chose to go with the flow.
President Joe Biden speaks during a Pride Month celebration at the White House on June 10, 2023.(Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Again, Biden 46 is the same as Carter 39. Although Mr. Carter himself was an evangelical Christian, Mr. Carter was personally a moderate. But during his four-year tenure from 1977 to 1981, the Democratic Party drifted to the left. Mr. Carter many ideological issues Within his own administration, there wasn't much he could do about it. As a result, he looked weak.
of political science terminology This is because the predicament of this kind of president is “division.'' Both Mr. Carter and Mr. Biden have bad examples of this, and therefore have been unable to transform their presidencies into powerful tools.
You may continue. Half a century ago, Carter was effectively ousted by inflation caused in part by green policies that squeezed energy supplies. Yes, it's a familiar story today. One post-election poll found that the biggest issue for anti-Harris voters was, price increase. Then there are foreign policy weaknesses, borders, and scandals. It's difficult to be a good president while keeping all the moving parts in place.
Therefore, the historic sentences for both Carter and Biden are likely to be harsh. Faced with internal separatist forces, they made the situation even worse, and the Americans noticed it.
If there is no commander-in-chief in charge, if the trumpet sounds uncertain and the words utter like murmurs, the people will be discouraged. And if voters have lost confidence in the incumbent, change is bound to come.
