American Consequences - January 2021

By Buck Sexton

THE DUDE ABIDENS

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JOE JUST HAS TO SHOWUP TO TO BE A SUCCESS

It will be a truly magical moment when our 46th president, Joe Biden, is sworn in on January 20. For the first time in history, a man who has been known for decades as an amiable mediocrity with a penchant for saying foolish things will be held up as a grand statesman, destined to save our Republic. It will be quite a sudden transformation, but if you question it, Google or Amazon may decide to kick you off the Internet... So you’d better go along with it, peasant.

this, his detractors have really meant: is this 78-year-old politician really of sound mind and body for the rigors that the commander- in-chief duty entail? There’s still a strong case to be made that he isn’t, which has led to a flurry of “guess when Kamala takes over” betting. Is this 78-year-old politician really of sound mind and body for the rigors that the Commander-in-Chief duty entail?

Nobody really thinks Biden is impressive. The single biggest point of Biden’s appeal in this last election was the fact that he is not Donald J. Trump. That, and his eight-year run as vice president to Obama gave him universal name recognition and was enough to get his 80 million voters to pull the lever for him. For good old “blue-collar Joe” from Scranton, Pennsylvania, longevity in politics was the secret sauce... He stuck around for three presidential runs, and the third time was the charm. Up to this point, much of the debate has been around whether Biden is up for the job. By

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