Blame Barack: Obama's lost mystique marks the end of an era - Victor Davis Hanson

as wistful Obama once conditioned his dream of a third term: “If I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front man or front woman, and they had an earpiece in . . .” - Victor Davis Hanson 

The Obamas ignored or withheld from the public their own firsthand knowledge that Biden was suffering from signs of dementia.
Instead, they found Biden’s cognitive decline and his former concocted reputation as workingman’s Joe useful as a veneer for a veritable Obama third-term, “phone it in” administration...
But their radical menu since 2021 had divided and nearly wrecked the nation...

• An inert Biden is departing office with a 36% favorability rating in a recent Emerson poll.
• His Democratic nominee replacement, losing presidential candidate Vice President Harris, also has virtually vacated her office with 40 days left of her tenure...