Immoderate Joe
His delusions of grandeur deepen.
by George Neumayr
April 1, 2021, 12:01 AM
If Joe Biden is as “authentic” as pundits claim, why does he spend so much time trying on the identities of others? During the plagiarism scandal in 1987 that blew up his first presidential run, he assumed the identity of a British socialist, Neil Kinnock, whose words about his hardscrabble youth Biden adopted as his own.
Biden envisions himself as a big-government giant in their mold. He harbors the dream of serving as the “most progressive president in history.”
Is this not proof that his moderate schtick was a con the whole time?
“What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.” In Biden’s case, power has revealed that he is just one more reckless and ruthless partisan for bigger and bigger government. According to Axios, “people close to Biden” say that he loves “the growing narrative that he’s bolder and bigger-thinking than President Obama.”
Biden has always tended to get ahead of himself, a blundering quality not lost on Obama. As Politico reported, “One Democrat who spoke to Obama recalled the former president warning, ‘Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f–k things up.’ ”
The Founding Fathers provide the best model for a presidency. They urged a course not of novelty but of continuity, not of limitless plans but of respect for limitations on the federal government. FDR and LBJ ignored those limits and put America on a ruinous path. Biden is determined to imitate them, emulating not their best qualities but their worst ones.
https://spectator.org/joe-biden-moderate/