His lame duck period starts now. Is he going to be remembered as just a Jimmy Carter 2.0?
shareI think one thing worth mentioning is the corrupt warmongering and the number of people who are dead due to his disastrous foreign policies. I'd really like to know the body count in Russia, Ukraine, Israel, and Palestine because of his Presidency.
shareHe continued to stoke the forever wars in Ukraine & Israel abroad. At home he passed the infrastructure bill to rebuild America's roads & bridges, yet left a leaky border crisis to have migrants bussed into blue states to tax their civil services.
shareSniffing kids.
shareGiven he's a one-term president and his policies won't be continued by his successor, I think objectively, his presidency will have a mixed verdict but be viewed favorably. After the first Trump presidency, Biden's calls for national unity and speaking out against neo-nationalist and the far-right movement felt like a breath of fresh air. He had a progressive social agenda with some legislative wins, like passing infrastructure, the CHIPS and Science Act, and charting the course to lower carbon emissions under the Inflation Reduction Act.
On the international front, he stood with our international allies at NATO, condemned Russia's invasion into Ukraine, and supported Israel against Hamas. The Afghanistan withdrawal left the U.S. on a poor ending on the War on Terror, but the withdrawal was going to be disastrous no matter who was president.
Biden promised to be a transitional president, and should have not ran for re-election given there were concerns about his age and ability to govern. He left Kamala Harris only months to effectively build a coalition. Given that she lost, it remains determined whether the fault is on her or Biden.
Overall, a C+.
Biden is ranked 14th on presidential rankings. On one, he is ranked 19th. “Post-1980, modern day presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden have landed in the top 20 of rankings, with Reagan and Obama often in the top ten.” Carter is no. 26. Trump is rated as one of the worst - bottom 4. They list how they arrived at their findings as they have categories and they go into depth of each president. You can google and read these rankings. No need to comment as I didn’t do the rankings. Top three are consistent - Lincoln, Washington, and FDR.
shareMore like "he bit off more than he could chew."
shareHow Joe Biden Squandered His Own Legacy
https://www.datalounge.com/thread/34974776-presidential-historian-biden-will-rank-among-worst-presidents
There were impending disasters everywhere and the president chose to ignore themshare
By Alexis Coe
In 2022, President Joe Biden stood at a crossroads. His party had just shattered midterm expectations — the strongest showing for a first-term president in decades. It was a triumphant moment that came with a choice: step aside in victory or tempt fate for four more years. A graceful exit then would have allowed an open primary, giving presidential hopefuls time to make their case to voters.
He chose wrong. After delivering a devastating debate performance, the rapidly diminishing 81-year-old president was still convinced that he, and precisely no one else, could save America. This astonishing Buchananesque approach — declare yourself the only solution while actively making the problem worse — inspired unprecedented reactions: House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi emerged from retirement to pressure a transition. Democrats increasingly broke their silence. And this presidential historian found herself writing the hardest essay of her career: I called for an ostensibly successful, unindicted president to resign in these pages.
I calibrated my appeal to his outsized ego — a trait he shares with the 44 men who preceded him. My focus wasn’t saving democracy — though that would be a welcome bonus — but to what the archives have taught me commanders-in-chief hold most dear: their place in presidential history. I celebrated his truly FDR-scale achievements while offering a dignity-preserving escape plan wrapped in historical glory: by listening to the electorate’s concerns and elevating the first woman president, he could join George Washington in democracy’s most exclusive club — one Donald Trump will never be accepted into — those rare leaders who chose to walk away from power.