You’ve probably heard from someone, perhaps Joe Biden himself, that Joe Biden has been the greatest president America has had since Lyndon B. Johnson or even Franklin D. Roosevelt. To paraphrase Eli Cash of The Royal Tenenbaums, what Jonathan Chait’s latest feature for New York presupposes is: Maybe he isn’t? In a tough, clear-eyed assessment of Biden’s actual accomplishments, Chait shows how the myth of Bidenism — of a transformational president at the vanguard of the progressive movement — blinded Democrats and led them down the road of increasing electoral irrelevance, leaving his potential successor, Kamala Harris, to find the way out of the woods. Fortunately for Harris and her party, there is a map to genuine political success — if they are willing to set aside the myths and return to reality. |
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