{"id":74287,"date":"2021-11-15T16:05:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T22:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=74287"},"modified":"2021-11-15T16:05:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T22:05:27","slug":"74287","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=74287","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Biden\u2019s sacrificial presidency<\/a>
\nHe governs like a man who knows he\u2019s not running again<\/em><\/p>\n

The worst kept secret in Washington, DC is that Joe Biden is a one-term president \u2014 whether he knows it or not. This weekend, palace intrigue stories from\u00a0Politico<\/i><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0CNN<\/a>\u00a0pitted Vice President Kamala Harris against Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. The kids are fighting over Grandpa Joe\u2019s inheritance before he\u2019s even cold.<\/p>\n

Biden doesn\u2019t acknowledge this. He\u2019s signaled multiple times that he intends to run for a second term in 2024. He has been trying to capture the White House for over thirty years. He\u2019s not just going to give that up willingly as he managed to go from party punchline to party patriarch in the span of one election.<\/p>\n

But to believe the choice is up to him is to believe that his staggering fall in poll numbers is imaginary.<\/strong> It\u2019s to believe that Biden is not facing the largest electoral wipeout in Congress in decades, or that those behind his presidency are not going to pull him aside \u2014 particularly Jill Biden, who has been extremely protective of her husband. It\u2019s to wave away his advanced age and possible cognitive decline. Joe Biden is a dead man walking, electorally speaking. Perhaps he always was.<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s consider the possibility that Joe Biden and the White House handlers behind him always knew he would be a one-term transitional president, whose sole purpose was to free the country from the scourge of Donald Trump. Having achieved that, Biden would then have a blank slate in terms of what his administration could achieve in the following four years. If Biden was to be a one-term lame duck on arrival, that would leave open the door for progressives to launch a transformational effort to remake the country into the leftist utopia they\u2019ve been yearning for.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Usually a politician would shy away from policies likely to inflict pain on the country. But that all changes if he isn\u2019t planning on standing for reelection. He could inflict real reform \u2014 and real harm, the kind of harm we are seeing right now with both an inflation crisis and oil prices spiking.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The infliction of this pain appears to be very intentional. When press secretary Jen Psaki returned to the podium last week, she acknowledged this. In response to a question about skyrocketing gas prices, she said: \u201cOur view is that the rise in gas prices over the long term makes an even stronger case for doubling down our investment and focus on clean energy options.\u201d Psaki said that as world leaders flooded Glasgow vowing to eliminate fossil fuels over the next nine to twelve years. That is not a coincidence.<\/p>\n

If you want to force a population off of meat consumption because you think it\u2019s harming the planet, you simply make things like meat too expensive. If you want to force people into electric vehicles because you believe they\u2019re harming the planet, you let gas prices soar to astronomical levels, to the point where people don\u2019t drive and opt for public transportation.<\/p>\n

To the Democrats, this is the Biden sacrifice. He will be a one-term president, but in his one term, he\u2019ll be able to transform the country in a way no politician who cared about his political future would ever dare to attempt. It\u2019s a deal that a 79-year-old Joe Biden would take, if it meant the national press speaks his name in the same breath as FDR.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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[and he and his family get that permanent Secret Service security detail that goes along with being President]<\/em><\/p>\n

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Joe Biden is not the future. He might not even be the present. That\u2019s why his administration is governing like he has months to live, sweeping through a bucket list of progressive wishes. Doing so is already causing enormous harm, but in the end it will be worth it for the Democrats, and it will be worth it for Biden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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