Michael Goodwin: Biden defending his presidency even has the Dems wanting him to go away

Many Democrats are nary uncertainty convinced they person suffered enough, but destiny seems to judge otherwise. 

How other to explicate Joe Biden’s determination to commencement making nationalist appearances and take sides his presidency? 

First he did a barren tally pinch nan BBC, past jumped into a lukewarm bubble bath astatine “The View”– and still astir drowned. 

Amidst nan accustomed half-sentences and stiff delays came this gem astir what he’s up to: “I’m trying to fig retired what’s nan astir important and consequential domiciled I tin play, accordant pinch what I’ve done successful nan past.” 

The sound you perceive is 40 cardinal Democrats smashing their heads against walls and shouting “No, no, no! You tin thief by going backmost to sleep!” 

But wait, there’s more: The erstwhile president said he’s penning a book. 

We’ve heard it each before, truthful present are apt section headings: 

“My boy did thing wrong.” 

“I hit Corn Pop, a really bad dude.” 

“Did you cognize I grew up successful Scranton and we had a room table?” 

To complete nan nightmare, nan TV conception featured different unwelcome reminder of nan past 4 years: Jill Biden grabbing nan microphone to take sides him erstwhile nan erstwhile president couldn’t take sides himself. 

Asked astir coming books that committedness to uncover really aides hid his cognitive decline, she insisted nan authors “didn’t spot really difficult Joe worked each azygous day.” 

“I mean, he’d get up, he put successful a afloat day, and past astatine nighttime he would, I’d beryllium successful bed, you know, reference my book, and he was still connected nan phone, reference his briefings, moving pinch staff,” she said.

“I mean, it was nonstop.” 

Nobody live believes that, aliases different dishonest declare he offered. 

“The only logic I sewage retired of nan title was because I didn’t want to person a divided Democratic Party,” Biden said.

“It’s a elemental proposition. I thought it was amended to put nan state up of my interest, my individual interest.” 

Please. 

The conception did win successful 1 sense: It illustrated really unfit Biden was and why Donald Trump swept nan election. 

But Biden wouldn’t concede anything, saying he wasn’t amazed that Vice President Kamala Harris mislaid because, he falsely claimed, Trump “went nan sexist route” against her and suggested “a female of mixed race” couldn’t lead nan country. 

There you person it: We’re backmost to racist, sexist “deplorables” again. 

Biden’s pathetic effort to rewrite history is simply a grim reminder that, six months aft nan election, Democrats are manically searching for personification to lead nan guidance to Trump. 

With nary evident savior among blue-state governors aliases successful Congress, their desperation is starring them to grabsp astatine straws. 

Who will lead Dems? 

Could Bernie Sanders, who isn’t moreover a Democrat, beryllium nan answer?

How astir his walking companion, AOC? 

Not a chance.

They are relishing their backstage pitchy rides excessively overmuch to concede they are surviving for illustration nan oligarchs they declare to hate. 

How astir Harvard University, which is suing nan Trump management complete its withholding of national grants? 

The suit captured nan attraction of The New York Times, which declared it was inspiring different colleges to conflict back. 

But that bubble quickly burst arsenic Harvard released a study documenting wide anti-semitism connected its field and its president said he agreed pinch Trump that nan Ivy League schoolhouse has a superior civilization problem. 

So nan Times quickly moved connected to hoping nan caller pope will beryllium nan antidote to nan president it hates. 

“Pontiff May Provide Contrast to Trump connected U.S. Values,” a caller header said. 

Talk astir unusual bedfellows.

The Times and its progressive unit routinely scorn Catholicism and belief successful general, truthful that matrimony can’t last. 

In truth, nan problem is not who will lead nan party, but what does nan statement guidelines for. 

Although there’s evident entreaty to uncovering a prima headliner, nary 1 personification tin propulsion nan Dems retired of nan ditch.

Biden didn’t get them location alone, and, fixed his encephalon fog, wasn’t moreover nan leader of his administration. 

The existent culprits are nan Obama-era activists who pushed to unfastened nan border, created nan wildly costly greenish caller scams and force-fed nan federation a fare of group and gender hogwash. 

None of those things enjoyed wide nationalist support, yet backing them without preservation became a litmus trial for Dems crossed America. 

The only consistency to nan Biden authorities was nan dictum to “shut up and vote” for immoderate garbage it proposed.

And nan statement saluted and did. 

Remember erstwhile nan Georgia rule requiring elector ID was nan caller Jim Crow? 

Oddly, that sordid history points nan measurement to nan future.

Anyone who intends to beryllium a Dem leader must concede nan statement mislaid its measurement and egregiously overreached. 

He aliases she must besides disavow nan suspicion it intends to go a afloat socialist party, which is nan way erstwhile wide parties successful Europe are following. 

Party of elites 

The leader who dares to return those positions whitethorn aliases whitethorn not go nan boss, but specified moves could statesman a concatenation guidance that will let center-left reformers to group a realistic schedule for America’s moving and mediate classes. 

Trump’s brilliant was that he remade nan GOP to correspond those forgotten Americans.

It is now nan nation’s Main Street party, pinch an America First agenda, while nan Dems are nan statement controlled by coastal and world elites. 

Even freed from Biden, its schedule is dominated by embracing criminal forbidden migrants, protecting a bloated authorities workforce and refusing to see taxation cuts aliases reductions successful national spending. 

None of that makes a whit of consciousness to astir Americans. 

As an illustration of really nan parties person switched priorities and identities, deliberation backmost to past year’s conventions.

Teamsters President Sean O’Brien gave a long, passionate reside astatine nan Republican gathering successful Milwaukee successful which he criticized galore of nan firm leaders backing Trump. 

He said later that while immoderate successful Trump’s campy wanted him to soften his remarks, Trump told him to opportunity immoderate he wanted. 

On nan different hand, O’Brien did not speak astatine nan Dem normal successful Chicago and said he wasn’t moreover invited. 

He told Tucker Carlson successful an question and reply that successful his gathering pinch Kamala Harris, she refused to reply galore of his argumentation questions, near aft conscionable 15 minutes and said angrily she would triumph pinch aliases without his union’s support. 

None of this intends nan GOP has a glide way to nan adjacent election, fto unsocial nan adjacent generation.

Trump is being tested by events and has admitted vexation complete being incapable to extremity Russia’s warfare pinch Ukraine and make headway connected nan Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 

Much of nan world system is slowing arsenic he implements tariffs and an different level of unit turnover and leaks are undercutting nan image of an businesslike White House. 

Still, he’s mounting nan array for large economical and civilization gains while Dems still don’t cognize what they guidelines for — aliases moreover wherever nan array is.