Biden leaves behind a loser’s legacy

President Joe Biden has announced that he will not run for reelection, cementing his half-a-century-long legacy of losing.

Biden’s abysmal presidency is going to end with a whimper whether or not Democrats win in November, as Biden was thrown out by his party after a debate performance that exposed he simply is not physically or mentally fit to serve as president. His approval ratings tanked in 2021 after his fabricated image of competence and empathy came crashing down as he botched the withdrawal from Afghanistan and disrespected Gold Star families. Those numbers haven't recovered since then, and now his party is telling him point-blank he must step aside because he will lose.

It is a perfect ending to the career of a mediocre politician such as Biden, who crashed out of his first presidential campaign in 1987 after a plagiarism scandal. He was an afterthought in the 2008 presidential campaign but was plucked from the Senate by Barack Obama to be his running mate, failing upward after a Senate career where he had been “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades” according to Robert Gates, who served as the secretary of defense in Obama’s administration.

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Were it not for a pandemic, Biden would not be president right now. Were it not for the Iowa Democratic Party botching its caucus and denying Pete Buttigieg momentum in the 2020 primary, leading Democrats to scramble to find an alternative to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Biden would likely not even have been the nominee. He blundered into the presidency after a career of blunders in the Senate and then blundered his way through the presidency. His reelection campaign flamed out after he blundered through a debate and nearly the entire Democratic Party told him he would lose the election.

If the Democratic nominee wins in 2024, it will be because that person is not Biden. If the Democratic nominee loses, it will be in large part due to Biden clinging to power despite it being obvious for the sake of the country and his own party that he should only serve one term. Aside from the presidential win he lucked into thanks to his own party’s incompetence and a once-in-a-century pandemic, Biden will be remembered as a loser who chased a presidential dream for decades and then drove his party, and the country, into the ground when he reached it.