The White House incumbent is obsessed with fictionalizing Trump’s agenda.
On January 5, Joe Biden delivered the opening speech of his re-election campaign near Valley Forge in Pennsylvania. As was expected, it was a rambling diatribe that focused on his predecessor and potential successor, Donald Trump, and the supposed threat to democracy he poses. Biden made several questionable statements but, most notably, he became the first White House incumbent in living memory to give a campaign speech that did not include any reference to his own performance or record so far.
On October 28, 1980, during the single presidential debate between Ronald Reagan and then-President Jimmy Carter, the Republican challenger posed to the American people a pivotal question: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” Joe Biden couldn’t ask Americans if they are better off now than they…
