What’s telling about “The Last Politician,” Franklin Foer’s history of the Biden administration, is that even when the author is trying to praise or defend the president, Joe Biden still looks completely out of his depth.
After Biden’s total failure in Afghanistan, with 13 US service members coming home in caskets, Foer rather unconvincingly writes that “grieving was his expertise … The Irish journalist Fintan O’Toole once called him ‘the Designated Mourner.’”
But Biden doesn’t come off as comforting.
Confronted by a father who insists the president must “learn their stories,” Biden doesn’t respond that he will, but claims, “I do know their stories.”
Foer doesn’t even mention Biden callously looking at his watch, or how he kept bringing up his son Beau to family members who didn’t want to hear it. “Did I do something wrong?”