{"id":225557,"date":"2020-11-14T10:46:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T16:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bartholomewstjames.com\/?p=225557"},"modified":"2023-09-18T18:54:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T23:54:01","slug":"bidens-hot-steaming-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartholomewstjames.com\/bidens-hot-steaming-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Hot Steaming Mess of Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"
Donald Trump is not the retiring kind. <\/b>Sure, he\u2019s hunkered down licking his wounds for now. But that won\u2019t last long, and certainly not as long as an exhausted country is hoping. And when he comes out of his cave, he\u2019s going to be hungry \u2013 for revenge, for validation, for the chance to prove the country wrong. Which means he\u2019s going to be on the attack against anything and anyone he feels did him wrong \u2013 according to his <\/i>troubling sense of right and wrong.<\/p>\n
Which means he\u2019s going to continue to discredit the electoral system, including the administrators and the courts \u2013 the Supreme Court included. He\u2019s going to be attacking the Democrats and their voters, especially the kind that were dancing in the streets at his expense. He\u2019ll be decrying Republicans for not providing enough support and fealty, despite their near total contrition to his will. He\u2019ll be whining about the media, for reporting the truth about the election, and\u2026 well pretty much everything they\u2019ve said about him over the past four years. And he\u2019ll be denouncing the Federal Reserve and the entire scientific and medical community \u2013 for failing to save his presidency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In short, he\u2019ll be out to get them all.<\/b><\/p>\n And if past is any kind of prologue, the media will be right there with him, covering it wall to wall, Tweet by Tweet, grievance by grievance. Which means they\u2019ll be giving him all the attention he craves \u2013 and therefore all the power he needs to do whatever it is he wants to do.<\/p>\n Oh sure, ‘Sleepy Joe’ will manage to get his share of coverage, and it will be positive enough for the most part \u2013 certainly throughout the honeymoon period. But that won\u2019t last forever. And when it ends, my guess is that things will take a marked turn \u2013 and not for the better.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n After all, Biden will be dealing with some pretty sticky issues, ones that are not easily resolved. And then there\u2019s that one overarching issue that will likely prove all but impossible <\/i>to resolve. And it\u2019s an issue that, as near as I can tell, he has no idea how <\/i>to deal with \u2013 that of healing the national divide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I really don\u2019t see what he has planned for healing that divide \u2013 other than being a really nice guy and hoping everyone will suddenly see the world the way he does, and therefore finally join hands in a national and historic ‘kumbaya’ moment. Nor do I see what he could <\/i>have planned.<\/p>\n Which means that insoluble problem is almost certain to become an immovable object in the middle of the road to resolving the most immediate and pressing of his concerns \u2013 that of ending the pandemic<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Because that divide between Republicans and Democrats in their attitudes towards COVID prevention measures is only going to widen. Which means every measure we have for dealing with the pandemic is going to become an even more divisive hot button issue in the weeks and months to come.<\/p>\n