Right on Cue, the President’s Mistakes Are Our Fault Again

POLITICS & POLICY
President Joe Biden reacts as he speaks about Hurricane Henri and the evacuation of Afghanistan in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, August 22, 2021. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)

You can tell a Democrat is president, because we’re starting to see pieces blaming “us” for his mistakes. In the Atlantic a couple of weeks ago, Tom Nichols wrote that “Afghanistan Is Your Fault.” “American citizens,” Nichols suggested, “will separate into their usual camps and identify all of the obvious causes and culprits except for one: themselves.” Today, Max Boot makes the same argument in the Post. “Who’s to blame for the deaths of 13 service members in Kabul?” he asks. Answer: “We all are.”

This is of a piece with the tendency of journalists and historians to start muttering about how the presidency is “too big for one man” when the bad president in question is a Democrat. Under these terms, Republicans just aren’t up to the job, while Democrats are the victims of design or modernity or of the public being feckless. Last year, Coronavirus was Trump’s fault. Now, it’s the fault of Republican governors and the unvaccinated (well, only some of the unvaccinated).

Still, this has happened pretty quickly with Joe Biden. Usually, it takes a couple of years before the press starts to sound like a bunch of hippies sitting around a fire saying, “you know, in a sense, you’re me and I’m you, and all of us are we — and so when the president makes a mistake, it’s really, like the universe making a mistake, isn’t it? And, y’know, we’re in the universe, so we are the presidency. That’s democracy, man.”

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7 Comments

  1. Sorry folks but The LEFT just can’t help it, blaming others, is just in their blood.
    If it wasn’t for HYPocrisy, they wouldn’t be HIP at all.

  2. Well, they’re sorta right, just not in the way they think they are. Too many Americans were brainwashed, voted for Biden and continue to support him in face of the evidence of his incompetency.

    So, that chunk of America, they are responsible for Afghanistan! Because they were so afraid of admitting that Liberalism is a destructive political way of life that can only destroy, and not create. Because if they admitted Liberalism was destructive, it’d mean they are nothing more than braindead chumps for believing it.

  3. We all kmow he was cheated in but jist like theybsaid about Trump, EVERY single death is on his hands. The border, the virus, “vaccine,” Afghanistan. They’re ALL his fault. He’s unfortunately the resident in the white house so he’s responsible for it all.

  4. In a sense, it IS our fault, but not all of us. Just the ones that voted for Biden. They should have been able to see the dementia issues and that he isn’t qualified, but they voted for him anyway. It’s not like his incompetence was something that came out of the blue and couldn’t have been easily foreseen. They are equally responsible.

  5. Been around over 80 years and have never in my lifetime met a liberal who could ever admit they were wrong or made a mistake as it is always someone else at fault.

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