Biden just won’t go away
The article discusses the lingering presence of former President Barack Obama and current President Joe Biden in the political landscape. It highlights the dissatisfaction among Democrats regarding Biden's performance and the desire for new leadership. The piece also touches on the implications of Biden's and Kamala Harris's continued involvement in politics as the party seeks to move forward.
- ▪Barack Obama continues to influence politics despite leaving office a decade ago.
- ▪Joe Biden's diminishing capabilities have contributed to the Democratic Party's electoral defeats.
- ▪Many Democrats wish for Biden and other older party figures to step aside for new leadership.
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Some of us haven’t yet finished wishing Barack Obama would just go away. A decade after leaving the Oval Office, the former president still hovers over our politics issuing sanctimonious tweets in support of dishonest causes, such as the Democrats’ botched gerrymander in Virginia. But now, even with one ex-president still loitering with intent, there is another whose absence we constantly crave but are repeatedly denied. In this desire, we are certainly joined by most Democrats, for the ex-president in question is Joe Biden, whose already scant capacities dwindled into non-existence in 2024, a diminishment that led ineluctably to the blue party’s crushing electoral defeat at the hands of Donald Trump.
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