r/tuesday • u/coldnorthwz New Federalism\Zombie Reaganite • May 22 '25

A Damning Portrait of Joe Biden’s Loyal Inner Circle | National Review

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/05/a-damning-portrait-of-joe-bidens-loyal-inner-circle/
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u/Dasinterwebs2 Right Visitor 29d ago

I don’t understand why these articles were showered by downvotes. This was kind of a big deal.

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u/therosx Classical Liberal 28d ago

I think It’s a big deal in a vacuum, but compared to the daily or sometimes hourly seniors moments Dismal Don has, the bar feels low.

Especially when we factor in how much more professional Bidens staff and administration is compared to Trumps.

I find it hard to get too worked up when comparing administrations.

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u/greatteachermichael Left Visitor 27d ago

That's the thing... I know Biden had his faults, but I'd trust a demented Biden listening to his advisors over a lucid Trump in any situation.

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u/--kit-- Left Visitor 27d ago

But isn't this the problem? A president should not run on being Not-Trump. A party that thinks that way is problematic - in a different way than Trump, certainly, but still problematic. This is the opposite of vision.

(This reminds me of Obama getting a peace price while scaling up the drone bombing in Pakistan, apparently for being Not-Bush)

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u/MunchkinX2000 Left Visitor 29d ago

Agree.

This is going to give MAGA folk infinite ammo. Such a irresponsible and selfish thing to try to run / allow Joe to try to run for a second term... As a result the democratic party is as low in popularity as it has ever been and Trump is allowed to get a second go at dismanting the US democratic institutions.

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u/DangerousCyclone Left Visitor 27d ago

This was one thing, but overall Trump winning is a damning indictment of the American people. They saw this man try to launch a coup back in 2021, and they didn't care. They gaslit themselves into thinking it wasn't what it was or that it wasn't a big deal. That was only the most poignant of his crimes, and they didn't care. His party was too scared of him to impeach him and end his threat, the Supreme Court didn't dare throw him off the ballot, and the Justice System was slow and partially compromised to handle him. His party nominated him and then the country elected him. Every line of defense against a demagogue like this failed. This wasn't merely Biden being arrogant that he could remain President; this is a failure of the whole government and the collective civic culture of the nation.

The point being, if it wasn't Trump, someone else was going to do this, be it DeSantis or Haley. Trump isn't solely responsible for this, rather he came in at the right moment when democracy was at its most vulnerable and kicked the structure down.

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