Originally Posted by
Kalam
Why would anyone even want Biden to take questions? He is senile. We all know it. What would the point even be?
He hired a bunch of establishment Democrats to run the country, and we should be debating whether they are doing a good job or not. But there is little point pretending he individually isn't senile, and then criticizing him as we would someone who still has their mental faculties.
I think this has been true for many of the presidents of late. Not senile, but essentially figure heads. W, Trump, and Biden are guys who have a macro worldview, but no ability or acumen to deal with the minutiae of running a country and hand over the day to day to a team of advisers.
I had to give W some credit after the Lewis pandemic book for recognizing a true problem and trying to straighten it out, so I’m not saying they are retarded, but they are largely figure heads. Our Middle East policy and the rest were ran by ideologues and he signed off. Trump and Biden are aging guys with an overarching worldview, but too old to burn the midnight oil over policy. Trump never had the ability. Biden was never overly smart at any point, so he would have been more hands on younger, but we might be better with 80 Joe over 60 Joe.
I prefer Biden’s advisers to Trump’s obviously, but I can’t say Trump let the nuttiest of his people run the most important stuff. He gave way too many donors important jobs and
things like the postal service are fucked, but he wasn’t putting Taylor-Greene types on the joint chiefs or anything. Neither is Biden. Too many political favors, but not extremists in any serious position.