Joe Biden hypocritically warns America in his farewell about Trump’s abuses of power

Wednesday night, President Joe Biden offered an eloquent explanation of what makes America so great that it doesn’t need much making it great again. Told in vivid brush strokes of how the Statue of Liberty was built one steel beam at a time, Biden made a strong case for all that America has achieved and all that we must preserve at a time when American values are threatened by the new guy who must not be named. But in making his case — marred only occasionally by slurring and other signs of infirmity — President Biden offered little reflection on what role he played in creating the danger of centralized power that can be so readily abused. “Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead … The president’s power … is not absolute. And it shouldn’t be,” Biden...