President Joe Biden has done a good job of making just about everyone angry during his presidency because he simply just isn’t good at politics outside of Delaware.
Biden walked back his previous decision to block arms shipments to Israel, which his administration said was a response to Israel’s decision to go into Rafah, despite the situation not changing from when he made his decision to now. Therefore, Biden managed to anger the majority of people who support Israel and then the loud activist minority among his base that despise Israel, and he did it all to change nothing.
It has been the story of Biden’s presidency. He constantly contradicts himself when the guidance of his progressive aides clashes with the reality of how voters perceive his policies. He contradicts his campaign, such as his criticism of former President Donald Trump’s tariffs that Biden is now keeping in place, showing he was just saying some things to get elected. He chases voters on issues they don’t actually care about, as with his mistaken impression that young voters have climate change or student debt at the top of their priority lists.
The reality is that Biden is simply not good at national politics. He flamed out of the 1988 presidential race after a plagiarism scandal. He was an afterthought in the 2008 presidential race, with Barack Obama later granting him a political future outside of the Senate by making Biden his running mate. In 2020, he made it through the Democratic primary thanks to weak alternatives (the leader being a mayor from South Bend, Indiana) and a party-wide fear that socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) would lose to Trump. Were it not for a once-in-a-century global pandemic, Biden likely would have lost to Trump, himself a terrible candidate, and faded back into obscurity.
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You can see this now in Biden’s terrible polling, both with his historically low approval rating and Trump’s early polling lead in various swing states despite his own baggage. Biden knew what he had to do to keep getting reelected in Delaware. But his decades of national political ambitions crashing down to earth with a perfect storm, letting him slip through in 2020, show that he simply can’t hack it at the national level.
Biden’s only saving grace now is that Trump is as prone to politically self-destructing as Biden has been throughout his career. He is in a deep hole because of his terrible policies and even worse political decision-making, and he wouldn’t have the political talent to dig himself out of it even a decade ago, much less now at the ripe age of 81.