It’s pretty rare that everybody across the political spectrum agree on anything, no less something so consequential as this.
But ask a Republican, a Democrat, or a media maven, and they all agree that Joe Biden is politically irrelevant.
Look at the coverage of Congress’ battle to pass a continuing resolution and to address the debt ceiling. As far as I can tell, there isn’t a mention of Joe Biden, the nominal President of the United States, having the least political influence over the outcome. We read about Trump’s negotiations with Speaker Johnson, and the Democrats are obsessed with the idea that they can use their own messaging to drive a rift between Donald Trump and Elon Musk, but Joe Biden is absent from both the negotiations and the news coverage.
I’m not sure I have seen anything like this, although I only vaguely remember the transition in 1980…
