President Joe Biden is a political afterthought despite being the most powerful man on the planet for the next three months. It will be part of his lasting legacy as a laughingstock.
Speaking about former President Donald Trump, Biden told voters in New Hampshire that “we’ve got to lock him up.” Biden clumsily tried to pretend he only meant that metaphorically, but given that his administration has been working to make that literal, it is hard to take his delayed walk back seriously.
This should be a national news story in the same vein as the countless “Trump wants to lock up his political opponents” stories that go back to his 2016 campaign against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. And yet, it is barely a blip on the radar. A member of the Biden administration even told reporter Alex Thompson, “For better or worse, no one is listening to him anymore, and…
