In my Sunday Smiles essay, I riffed on this Washington Post retrospective on Joe Biden’s presidency and how it soft-pedaled Biden’s disastrous policies and all the important questions about who was really in charge over the past few years.
I reserved for today the most important “revelation” in the story: Biden considers one of his biggest mistakes the choice of Merrick Garland for Attorney General. Garland, in his view, was not political enough.
In his presidency’s final chapter, Biden has mused about whether he should have handled some decisions differently. https://t.co/j3HrEQ0kta
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 29, 2024
It may seem odd to normal people that anybody could think that Garland was anything but a political hack over the past four years, but seen through the eyes of Democratic Party operatives, you can see how such an…