It’s been said that in the end, fate gives us all the face that we’ve earned. That maxim seems to have been tailor-made for Joe Biden; can there be a more revealing portal to the man’s core than the unpleasant countenance he now imposes on the public?
As his faculties erode on the national stage, what remains of him, what is still somewhat coherent and translatable, is his essential meanness. It’s a feature that’s always been present, lurking just below the surface of the smiling bonhomie, characterizing his manner and method through most of his political career. Now, as the manufactured good nature recedes, in order to make his words impactful, to give them direction and effect, they need to be propelled by a considerable charge of anger. He puts across his teleprompter-fed points by raising the decibel level to uncomfortable heights.
The bitter, geriatric junkyard dog visage he now sports during his public utterances calls to mind his former White House roomie — the dreaded Secret Service nemesis and eventual D.C. exile, Commander the German Shepherd.
Here in the Big Apple, through the workings of a depressingly corrupted legal machinery — the New York state court system was once the envy of the jurisprudential world (one of the major reasons the city served as financial capital of the world) — the Democrats finally achieved what they have long sought: pinning the appellation “convicted felon” (at least temporarily) on Donald Trump. They and their media allies now create a deafening echo repeating the phrase incessantly.
Yet if demeanor is any indication, it is Joe Biden, and not Donald Trump, who has the look of a man being led to his political execution. Perhaps he knows that while Mr. Trump looks forward to a successful appeal of his phony conviction, Biden has lost nearly every appeal he’s made to the American people since his election.
These days Biden displays the bitter mien of a guy who has long since given up on any effort to persuade people to his side through reason or good works (if indeed he had ever truly attempted one). He is personally offended by those having the temerity to consider Donald Trump a superior choice for the job, and takes no pains to hide his contempt. Question Joe’s fitness, and “you ain’t black,” (or for that matter white, Hispanic, or Asian). You’re just plain stupid.
In the estimation of Kathy Hochul, the struggling-to-reach-mediocre governor of New York and a key Biden ally, you’re just one of Trump’s clowns. Yet she and the rest of the Democrat minions can spit out epithets, but they can’t escape the realization that as a president, a leader, or just simply as an example to the nation, Biden has failed utterly and completely. He and his collaborators have conspired to do great, perhaps irreparable harm to this once great nation — and it’s getting more and more difficult to conclude that it has not all been purposeful.