Biden Can’t Deny Responsibility For Our ‘So, So, So Divided’ Nation

In March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced he would not seek reelection. It was an admission by Johnson that his administration failed in its conduct of the Vietnam War. His vice president, Hubert Humphrey, received the Democratic nomination and was trounced in an electoral landslide.

The Biden-Harris administration is weighed down with its own major failures. That’s why the administration’s job approval ratings are well underwater on every major question: inflation, the economy, the border, crime, and foreign policy. Biden’s decision to withdraw from the race is — no less than LBJ’s — an implicit admission that his administration has failed on the major issues of the day. But at least Biden and Harris have pretended to defend their record on these issues from time to time.