The question Joe Biden keeps asking: ‘Can we come back from this?’ | CNN Politics
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The line Joe Biden used to put into nearly every big speech — “I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future” — is a long way from what he says in private now.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/politics/p/909661/the-question-joe-biden-keeps-asking-you-think-we-can-actually-come-back-from-this

The line Joe Biden used to put into nearly every big speech — “I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future” — is a long way from what he says in private now.The line Joe Biden used to put into nearly every big speech — “I’ve never been more optimistic about America’s future” — is a long way from what he says in private now.

These days, multiple people who’ve spoken to him over the last year say, Biden often punctuates conversations with: “You think we can actually come back from this?”

The 83-year-old Biden continues to feel out a post-presidency that may prove to be one of the shortest in history and is already one of the most complicated.

There are days when Biden is heartbroken, indignant or in disbelief about what is happening as President Donald Trump — the man he defeated in 2020 — returned and moved not just to tear down his accomplishments, but to dig in with petty insults like the autopen photograph he put in Biden’s spot in the “Presidential Walk of Fame” installed at the White House.

  • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    Polls that suggest more people saying he did a better job as president than Trump are a boost.

    Damned by faint praise.

    The vibe of this article paints a world eager to relegate Biden to the past. Not in any malicious sense, but as coldly as one might an aging parent that one cannot care for.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    17·
    1 day ago

    He’s got a legacy, though: it’s “the man who lost the Republic”. History books will not look kindly on him, regardless of whether or not the current regime tries to pin more random crap on him. In the future, the best possible light that he will be seen in will be deeply unflattering.

    • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      He won his election. It’s not entirely his fault the Democratic party is a part of the whole corrupt mess. He did more than most to prevent this.

      I don’t think there are many Americans who are in a position to sit on their high horse at the moment. The entire thing has failed, top to bottom. I think history will study it as a societal failure more than a political one.

      • Beetschnapps@lemmy.world
        7·
        1 day ago

        “But but he was supposed to be a silver bullet! It’s his fault the country is in a multi decade assault by conservative autocrats! I’m voting Green Party to really show em!”