What?

I’ve thus far only read the first two paragraphs of the article and had to stop to write this.

My hope is that it is a spoof – my fear is that it is not.

Biden doing alright? That has to be a joke – but to mention the shambolic withdrawal from Afghanistan as a policy win, rather than the most shameful US humiliation this century, means the joke – if joke it is – is in rather poor taste.

I’ll now read the rest, and offer a more considered response in the morning, but if this turns out to be a serious article then I’m looking forward to the comments from other posters, they shoul be pretty entertaining- though I rather doubt they’ll be comfortable reading for the author, Mr Bateman.

HaHaaaa, it is the way you tell them which makes it so hilarious, hahaaa

”But if you look at the facts, President Joe Biden appears to be doing alright.”

I assume this is in the

”;Mussolini did get the trains to run on time.”

kind of way – that Mussolini also destroyed his Nation and People, destroyed the economy, the infrastructure of Italy – and messed up some bits of the Serbian lands, and Albanians, and Abyssinia, and Libya, and so on – But – he appeared to do alright – Train Time Table wise…. Hahaaa – this writer is in a league of his own…..

The Biden, or ‘Big Guy’ as he is known, destroyed the USA Economy with lockdowns and insane money printing. He – killed and disabled more with his obscenely dangerous mRNA vax than covid ever did – cost the young of America over a year of education, created Inflation worst that any since the 1980s – and then Exported it to the World! He is dividing all USA into race hate and weird gender insanity – he has caused Crime to Rocket up, – and allowing 6 million illegals to be brought in by the Drug Cartels – making them so many $Billions they can not believe it, he is letting all the drug Cartels operate in the USA Cities and allowing the Cartels to become powerful in USA and own Mexico – he then has made the CIA – FBI – NSA – and all the rest into His Private Secret Political Police to STEAL the elections and Repress, oppress the Decent Americans! By stealing the 2020 election he led USA’s First successful Coup!

He Created World War Three!! From a regional conflict which is nothing to do with us he spent $113 BILLION so far – according to many it is $200,000,000,000 Two Hundred Billion – if you add in other costs. He will spend a $TRILLION Rebuilding that nation wile he DESTROYS NORTH AMERICA! Causes a Global Depression and global Famine and the West bankrupted. That is after destroying Ukraine and causing half a million dead and disabled.

He blew up Germany’s Pipeline destroying their economy – and has basically wrecked the EU and UK, and Created a Axis Power of BRICS plus KSA, Iran, Venezuela, Pakistan, Iraq, UAE, and every rogue nation on earth to fight us. He has debased the $ US Dollar, threatening its position as Global Reserve – and he is head of an international Crime Family – openly!

Even Atilla the Hun and Genghis Khan have not done as much harm as Biden – – – AND Biden has not got the trains to run on time – Notice Palastine Ohio turned into a toxic death trap from his trains?

This is like reading Philip K. d**k’s “The Man in the High Tower”, an alternate reality where things are fundamentally different then the one we ordinarily inhabit.

Oh come on. It’s a proper name, for God sake. Look it up. At least leave the capitalization intact.

I sure would like some of what Oliver is smoking these days. Biden is tightly controlled by the far left of his party. He is clearly a puppet but the question is who is really putting the strings. Biden’s reputation as a “moderate” in his own party is murky at best. He has a record of following the wind. And now he is clearly in the throws of mid mental decline. I am often reminded of my own father’s descent into dementia when I see Joe’s shuffle, weird eye movements, and tendency to fly into a rage when confronted by someone or something that is confusing him. He is no moderate.

Strange to describe the President who has increased the debt share of every taxpayer to $247,000 in this way.

In an earlier life Joe Biden spent much time and effort preventing the extradition of IRA killers from the US to UK.
No doubt some, not I, regard this as a simply SPLENDID achievement.

If he is the ‘best’ the US can throw up, God help us!

Oh, come on, Oliver. Now you’re just trolling.

More than two years of data are in, and the answer is definitively “No!”

I must acknowledge that I am liking the change in Mr. Bateman as a comedic writer.

Not even wrong. Just silly.

the Biden administration is not (and far from it) centrist. As Cheyney said ‘ she and the Dems will do all they can to prevent Pres Trump win the next election’. In their heart of hearts everybody in the US know that there is no longer such a thing as a fair election anymore. Another rubbish article by Unherd

You’re joking, right? Calling Biden’s administration a success and him a centrist is delusional.

I couldn’t read more than a few paragraphs. I wrote off Joe Biden as a hack in 1988 and absolutely nothing in the interim has caused me to reconsider. I have more contempt for this shambling, incoherent, corrupt, quasi-senescent hack than before. Joe Biden has been a persistent polyp in the bowels of American politics for close to 50 years.

I have to push back against the notion that Biden is ‘doing’ much of anything outside of being a figurehead and somehow failing at it. He was picked to carry the establishment banner and save them from the existential threat of Trumpian populism because of what he was. He was a consummate Washington player who had managed to be so bland that he had avoided making many enemies among voters or colleagues over a long career. What he is now, however, is a doddering old man in a suit being propped up by an establishment in full damage control mode following Trump and the pandemic. Elections aside, he’s as much in charge of the USA as Charles III is in charge of the UK, and as a figurehead or as an actual leader, I’d probably prefer the latter as the King can actually manage to speak in complete sentences and can find his way off the stage without assistance. It isn’t as if Biden’s administration hasn’t tried to push the globalist agenda further. They’ve been prevented from doing so by the decentralized nature of the American system. A one vote Senate margin meant that a single Senator, Joe Manchin, was able to essentially hold the entire party to ransom and single-handedly dictate how far left the Democrats could push their agenda in their major legislation. He moderated much of what they wanted to do. In the end, the Dems couldn’t reconcile their extreme left with Joe and ‘build back better’ the main vehicle for the Democrats’ social agenda, is dead at his hand. There’s also the issue that the Republicans control most state governments and local governments outside the major metros. There’s a limit to what can be accomplished even with complete control of Congress and the Presidency. I’m not sure I’d call two years of double digit inflation ‘success’. Also, while most Americans did support withdrawal in principle, the execution of the Afghanistan withdrawal was, to be polite, so haphazard as to be embarrassing. I’m also not sure what the author is wanting? Glenn Youngkin and Ron DeSantis are not centrists. This is the same DeSantis that bussed migrants to Martha’s Vineyard as a stunt and basically told a multinational corporation (Disney) to get out of politics. Youngkin beat a more moderate challenger in the primary and his victory was a shocking upset. Their mannerisms might be moderate, and their origins might be approved by the powers that be, but they’ve ridden the wave of populism as much as Trump himself. If that’s centrism, then centrism is basically indistinguishable from common sense populism and what the author wants is populists who don’t alienate wide swaths of voters with odious personal behavior and who don’t post insulting twitter comments at 3AM like an attention seeking teenager. If that’s what we’re calling centrism now, then I’m all for it.

Midterms seemed to confirm ‘swing voters’ yearning for moderation. Thus regardless of views on Biden that’s the main contention from the Article, painful though that may be for either further Right or Left exponents. Does feel like something similar happening in UK too, and it’s often the pattern after more crazy times.
Whether Democrats can find a centrist with the comms skills of a Clinton remain to be seen. As regards Biden, he’ll be same age as Gladstone when he won his last UK election if he wins in 24. So not entirely unprecedented.

Oh, Bateman, there you go again.

As absurd as it sounds to say “Biden’s doing alright”, I can see what the author is saying here. However, he completely ignores the role of the parties.
Biden himself is not an ideologue. But he is surrounded and managed by ideologues. What good is a centrist who’s too weak to defend centrism from the lunatics of his own party?
Countries are usually destroyed not by a leader’s malevolence but by his simple incompetence. Bold, evil men are usually too obvious to win elections; it’s often weak leaders who do the most damage by their sheer unwillingness to lead. Biden may be a centrist, but the Biden administration is run by the Democratic Party, which has gone completely insane.

Coming from the other side of the Pond I do find it strange, and indeed somewhat amusingly ridiculous, to hear in America the Democrats &/or Biden described as Left, far Left, crazy Left or whatever. You guys really have no idea!

Those who think Biden is far left of center might be living in an echo chamber or house of mirrors where the political center seems to run through the center of their own heads.
If Biden is far left, I suppose Bernie is well to the left of Lenin.