{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "\"Joe Biden is adrift and useless\" \u2013 nah, he's a pretty reasonable caretaker, which was key to his appeal in the first place.\n\"He...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/688983749145296896/", "html": "<p>&ldquo;Joe Biden is adrift and useless&rdquo; \u2013 nah, he&rsquo;s a pretty reasonable caretaker, which was key to his appeal in the first place.</p><p>&ldquo;He hasn&rsquo;t resolved COVID to my satisfaction!&rdquo; nah, he resolved COVID and part of it was downshifting the party from your satisfaction. Which was key to his appeal in the first place.</p><p>&ldquo;He hasn&rsquo;t moved bills through Congress!&rdquo; Yeah, fair, his bringing Senatorial experience into the Oval Office is kinda the opposite of LBJ&rsquo;s, in that his understanding of its ways leads him to <i>accept</i> it as an autonomous equal other, I think there&rsquo;s a case to be made the post-FDR presidential supremacy was one of America&rsquo;s long-term problems but I&rsquo;m not sure this&rsquo;ll resolve it in a useful way.</p><p>&ldquo;He isn&rsquo;t doing <i>anything</i> to cancel out the coming-to-maturity of the 90-year conservative scheme to acquire power and change the form and priorities of the government!&rdquo; Well, yes, matching a 90-year plan is kind of beyond the scope of an octogenarian limited to two 4-year terms. I mean unless he threw out anything resembling regular order and attempted to establish a new order ex novo, which he&rsquo;s not going to do, <i>which was key to his appeal in the first place</i>.</p>"}