I find the idea that Joe Biden was a "normal" president to be genuinely offensive revisionism. We're talking about a man who avoided any kind of contact with the press whenever he could get away with it to prevent anyone from noticing he was senile, who got away with it for far longer than he should have, precisely because Trump had become a monster more because he made headlines than because of what those headlines were actually about. If this farce is supposed to be democracy, it shouldn't surprise anyone that voters decided to return the repeatedly convicted felon to power than have to endure that smug condescension for another four years with another candidate whose complete inability to form coherent sentences was just something we were supposed to pretend not to notice for the sake of maintaining normalcy.
The Andrew Sullivan quote you're referring to is simply intended to describe his outlook on life in the summer of 2023. It is not a judgment on Joe Biden's presidency. What Sullivan has to say regarding the points you've raised can be found in other articles written by him.
I find the idea that Joe Biden was a "normal" president to be genuinely offensive revisionism. We're talking about a man who avoided any kind of contact with the press whenever he could get away with it to prevent anyone from noticing he was senile, who got away with it for far longer than he should have, precisely because Trump had become a monster more because he made headlines than because of what those headlines were actually about. If this farce is supposed to be democracy, it shouldn't surprise anyone that voters decided to return the repeatedly convicted felon to power than have to endure that smug condescension for another four years with another candidate whose complete inability to form coherent sentences was just something we were supposed to pretend not to notice for the sake of maintaining normalcy.
The Andrew Sullivan quote you're referring to is simply intended to describe his outlook on life in the summer of 2023. It is not a judgment on Joe Biden's presidency. What Sullivan has to say regarding the points you've raised can be found in other articles written by him.