Joe Biden is finally at peace
By
David Harsanyi
November 15, 2024 2:15 pm
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Like a modern von Hindenburg, President Joe Biden, bright white chompers beaming through a big smile, welcomed President-elect Donald Trump to the White House this week.
Sure, the White House will tell you the president was merely respecting the traditions of a peaceful and smooth transition. Only a few weeks earlier, though, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre assured the press that Biden believed the Republican presidential candidate was a “fascist.” Indeed, two years before that, Biden stood in front of the crimson red background in Philadelphia and delivered what was perhaps the most divisive speech in modern presidential history, decrying the rise of “semi-fascism” on the Right.
So why was he smiling? You know why.
It’s not entirely implausible that the president was rooting for Trump to win in 2024. That would certainly put his decorators in their place. Indeed, after five decades of loyal service to his party, the man was discarded and treated like a child. It must have stung that his previous boss, former President Barack Obama, led the charge to replace him with his inept vice president. The indignity of having celebrities painting him as invalid in the New York Times must have been humiliating for Biden, who fashions himself one of the great statesmen in U.S. history.
Biden, a man of persistently modest talents, proved that with enough luck and time, anyone could be president.
He first lucked into a Washington job during the 1973 Senate race in Delaware. Former President Richard Nixon, then in the throes of Watergate, convinced his ally, incumbent J. Caleb Boggs, to hold off retirement and run again. This was the first Senate election in which 18-year-olds could vote, and Biden made the case that Boggs, 63, was too old for the job.
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