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As someone who thought Trump was the worst president in history and someone who makes a conscious effort to not let tribal "feelings" supersede my better judgment, I thought I'd briefly give my thoughts on Biden's performance as a standard to reference. The sky is falling for many, so let's have a look.
On Afghanistan -
Time after time, there appear to be no-brainer decisions that Biden and his administration overlooked. Did he/they intentionally make bad decisions? You would think so given how many times Republicans and some Democrats have called the withdrawal a disgrace. But there were so many unknowns regarding how one action would lead to a flurry of terrible consequences. In this regard, I think there's some observational bias going on. It was by no means a "success", but it probably could have gone much worse.
Still, there were obvious oversights. How could you leave so much machinery? They knew in advance they would be leaving. Could they not have relocated? Sold? Destroyed?
How about leaving troops in place until we are confident, to our best knowledge, everyone is out?
And the list goes on.
On Delta -
This is a bigger issue in my opinion because there are certainly unknowns, but not nearly as many. In fact, we are always able to peek around the corner because we are behind the Eastern world in terms of conditions. Given that, Biden and his admin dropped the ball months ago when they failed to see that what was happening in India would ultimately afflict the States.
Keeping that trend going, where is Biden right now? Regeneron, boosters, rapid testing <= are all powerful tools in reducing the burden here but the Biden admin is not deploying them.
Overall, I give Biden a pretty bad mark when he's under pressure or when he has to deal with surprises. He did decently prior to the pressure. And for comparison's sake, Trump did similarly poorly under the same conditions.
On Afghanistan -
Time after time, there appear to be no-brainer decisions that Biden and his administration overlooked. Did he/they intentionally make bad decisions? You would think so given how many times Republicans and some Democrats have called the withdrawal a disgrace. But there were so many unknowns regarding how one action would lead to a flurry of terrible consequences. In this regard, I think there's some observational bias going on. It was by no means a "success", but it probably could have gone much worse.
Still, there were obvious oversights. How could you leave so much machinery? They knew in advance they would be leaving. Could they not have relocated? Sold? Destroyed?
How about leaving troops in place until we are confident, to our best knowledge, everyone is out?
And the list goes on.
On Delta -
This is a bigger issue in my opinion because there are certainly unknowns, but not nearly as many. In fact, we are always able to peek around the corner because we are behind the Eastern world in terms of conditions. Given that, Biden and his admin dropped the ball months ago when they failed to see that what was happening in India would ultimately afflict the States.
Keeping that trend going, where is Biden right now? Regeneron, boosters, rapid testing <= are all powerful tools in reducing the burden here but the Biden admin is not deploying them.
Overall, I give Biden a pretty bad mark when he's under pressure or when he has to deal with surprises. He did decently prior to the pressure. And for comparison's sake, Trump did similarly poorly under the same conditions.
