Putting aside historical analysis, Bret Stephens can be a competent writer. Here he tells fellow liberals what they should do with Joe Biden. They are listening.

Fox: “New York Times columnist Bret Stephens accused President Biden of being a “failing president” who is so weak that the western world has been left effectively leaderless.

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Pulling no punches, Stephens also advised that the “best thing” Biden could do is announce immediately that he will not run again in 2024.

The author began his blistering criticism of Biden by declaring that “the democratic world today is leaderless.” He brought up world leadership under the U.S. in the past to illustrate his point, writing, “Twenty-five years ago, we had the confident presences of Bill Clinton, Helmut Kohl and Tony Blair — and Alan Greenspan. Now we have a failing American president, a timorous German chancellor, a British prime minister about to skulk out of office in ignominy. This is bad in normal times. It is catastrophic in bad ones.”

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Biden can’t deal with “an imminent nuclear crisis with Iran, in which the president seems to have no policy other than negotiations that are on the cusp of failure. Talented leaders turn proverbial lemons into lemonade. Biden seems to be mastering the trick of turning lemonade into lemons.”

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Biden butchered American “economic credibility,” stating, “The credibility crisis occurs when leaders make confident predictions, in the face of abundant contrary evidence, that turn out to be catastrophically wrong. Insisting that inflation was ‘temporary,’ as Biden did last year, was one such prediction.”

Biden’s “insistence on Monday that ‘God willing, I don’t think we’re going to see a recession’ may be the next. In addition, Biden hasn’t made changes to face the economic problems head on. At least Jimmy Carter had the guts to nominate Paul Volcker. Where is a similar confidence-inspiring move from Biden, who, remarkably, retains the same inept economic team that helped lead us into this mess?” he asked.

Biden won’t support “liberal democracy” across the world, the rise of “effective autocracies is a challenge for even the most inspired leaders. Except for Volodymyr Zelensky, there are none.

“The best thing Biden could do for the country is announce he won’t run for re-election — now, not after the midterms. Let his party sort out its own future,” Stephens wrote.

Senator John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, also has harsh words for Biden. “After 18 months, we know what President Biden stands for. If you don’t know by now, you’re thick as a brick,” he said on Jesse Watters Primetime.

“He believes in bigger government; higher taxes; more spending — more debt, more regulation, open borders, a weaker military and turning cops into social workers — and those policies have hurt the American people deeply.”

This piece was written by Jim Gunner on July 27, 2022. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.

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