Joe Biden Isn’t Your Scapegoat

Joe Biden Isn’t Your Scapegoat

Hey fam: I’m doing an AMA on our subreddit this Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. in the East. If you want to hang come over to r/thebulwark.I’ll remind you on Wednesday.(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)1. PrayersFirst: Please pray for Joe Biden and his family.Second: Biden’s failures have been well chronicled.1 And yet, in this litany, people usually ignore his most consequential mistake.Third: Biden’s biggest failure was that his theory of America…

After each presidential election, journalists rush to write books about the campaign that has just ended: they report on primary and convention, voters and polls, strategies and internal struggles.But the books on the 2024 contest also raise a new variation of Baker's question: what did the Democrats know about Joe Biden's physical and mental deterioration, and when did they know?And, if historical appropriation allows a corollary: once they kne…