President Biden is being transformed before our eyes, at least in how he’s portrayed in progressive circles and the media. The empathizer-in-chief and savior of democracy has become, in a matter of about two weeks, a clueless and selfish threat to all that they hold dear. Poor Joe Biden can be forgiven for not quite knowing what hit him.
Just a couple of weekends ago, he and his family were at Camp David for a photo shoot with the famed Vogue photographer Annie Leibovitz — getting the favorable glossy coverage a powerful Democrat expects — and now everyone has concluded he’s a dangerous jackass. “Never underestimate the destructive power of a stubborn old narcissist with something to prove,” Mark Leibovich of The Atlantic writes of Biden’s insistence, so far, on staying in the presidential race. Maureen Dowd has written of Scranton Joe, “His hubris is infuriating.
He says he’s doing this for us, but he’s really doing it for himself.” Chuck Todd of NBC News believes that “in clinging to this, I think the entire narrative on Joe Biden is gonna change, in that everything’s always been about his ambition and his ambition comes first.” There is an element of threat to some of the commentary — get out of the race, or you will never lunch, or shuffle around, in this town again .
Former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett writes, “Joe Biden can leave office as one of the greatest presidents in our lifetimes, who defeated Trump and put his country first at ev.
