"An acquaintance, someone who knows my political alignments, asked, somewhat sarcastically if “you and your Ayn Rand buddies expect the Biden administration to be like Orwell’s “1984”.
I said, “No. I’m not thinking 1984, I’m thinking more like 1978.”
...I’m old enough to remember the Carter administration,” I said.
...One of the jokes about the Obama years was that a replay of the Carter years was about the best that could be expected, but Obama was a far greater global interventionist than Carter.
...But Biden is not Obama.
He may well be the anti-Obama.
Biden has no outward appearance of authority.
He is like an elderly Beto O’Rourke, a transparent wisp of a man with so little energy, drive, mental acuity, and independent thought, I think the next four years will be pretty much guaranteed to be Carter II, with cardigan and all.
...The Iran Deal is one example, the “red-line” mess another and the disaster in Ukraine yet another.
You might point out that Biden wasn’t directly responsible for these, that they were mostly Obama’s idiocy, aided by Hillary and the long-faced John F. Kerry (who served in Vietnam), but the fact is that Biden is promoting Obama, Hillary and Kerry’s bench-warming JV players to varsity starters in his administration...Read all.
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