Opinion: Biden somehow decided during the 2020 election he was the revolutionary figure the country had long been waiting for. His hand has proven anything but steady.
A common theme is that Biden or people close to him think he should get out more, with one Biden confidant telling POLITICO that the White House needs to, in the inevitable cliche used by frustrated loyalists, “let Biden be Biden.”
Every president has a theory of the case. Barack Obama’s was that the nation’s divisions weren’t as deep as they seemed and he, a clever and gifted communicator, could talk the country out of them or around them. In a piece that didn’t get nearly the attention it deserved at the time, Franklin Foer of The Atlantic wrote in October 2020 thatof transforming the country as he campaigned from his basement.
The big burst of optimism about Biden on the left came early in 2021 when he passed a $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill that turned out to be a grievous misjudgment. It was a classic case of fighting the last war — because the consensus on the center-left is that Obama’s stimulus bill in the wake of the financial crisis was too small, Biden was not going to make that mistake again.
Both of these moves created crises where none had existed upon his taking office, and duly undermined faith in Biden’s competence and reliability. Biden complains, per the POLITICO report, about not interacting with voters more. He’d surely be great at July Fourth picnics. What does that get him, though? He’s not running for the Wilmington, Del., City Council; he’s trying to lead a continental nation that is deeply discontented.
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