My wishes for precious Joe Biden

[Crawford]

54. My wishes for precious Joe Biden

I'm a lifelong democrat and liberal minded person. I also try to be as rational as possible on things. There's no doubt Biden has been a remarkable and valued political leader (absent the Thomas SCOTUS hearings). But here's where it seems I differ from many on this site. Biden got the support from his party to run in 2020 based on his pledge to unite the country and serve a single term. Based on his age, that made perfect sense. Via this expectation, the Democrats had 4 years to groom the best candidate to run in 2024. It's my belief that we failed twice during this time period. We failed to identify the much needed future leader as well as holding Biden to his promise. I find it hard to believe that his wife Jill didn't recognize that it was in her husband's best interest to keep to his pledge. Also, there's plenty of blame to go around within the democratic leadership that this issue wasn't resolved in the early phase of Biden's term. Was leadership worried about a "lame duck" label being applied? It shouldn't have mattered because it had been quite clear that his popularity quotient was dismal. In summary, IMHO the blame for losing to Trump for a 2nd time rests clearly on the shoulders of a leadership team that overlooked the obvious.