Talk about weird

From The Self-Aggrandizement of Jill Biden by Christine Rosen.  A couple of weeks old but some good points.  

The role of first lady is notoriously challenging, particularly when it comes to navigating public opinion. Those who have done it well, such as Laura Bush and Michelle Obama, understood that whatever their personal accomplishments and opinions, their public role was always a supportive one. They never succumbed to main-character syndrome. Those who did, such as Hillary Clinton and, now, Jill Biden, have assumed that the public wants “two for the price of one,” as President Clinton put it, and learned the hard way that a presidential spouse intent on aggrandizing power is not something Americans find appropriate. Nor are they fooled by Jill Biden’s efforts to pretend to be a woman of the people. “Teaching isn’t just what I do. It’s who I am,” she said at a recent event, according to the Wall Street Journal. But teachers don’t appear on the cover of Vogue dressed in expensive clothing, nor do most of them own second or third homes where they breakfast regularly on “crab-topped eggs Benedict.”

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For the past few years, the American people have watched, and what they have seen is an increasingly feeble and confused man going through the motions of the presidency while, behind the scenes, others make important decisions on his behalf. Now that Biden has dropped out of the race and the mainstream media have pivoted away from questioning his fitness to (ludicrously) hailing his good judgment and character, it is imperative that voters demand some answers about what went on behind closed doors. When the details of the past few years are recorded by historians, Jill Biden will finally achieve the starring role she has long pursued, albeit in a story in which she is not the hero.

There is a lot of blatant propaganda/rhetoric from the establishment Democratic party about saving democracy which is gratingly false. 

I suspect one, two, or three years down the road, we are going to discover that indeed Jill Biden was the Edith Wilson of our time and that regardless of whatever voting irregularities might have occurred in 2020, that the person elected has not actually been in charge for the past one to three years.  

And now we face the deepening irony.  We are likely being governed by a hidden coterie of influences (chiefly Jill Biden) who usrup the President's decision-making authority.  It is unclear whether his stepping down from the 2024 race was voluntary.  His successor nominee has never won any national party support above 1%.  She has no track record of success.  She has a messy trail of financial and professional improprieties.  As does her newly selected Vice Presidential candidate.  All without Democratic Party member choice.  They have been chosen by the establishment not by the electorate.  

It seems like the party and the candidates most bereft of democratic norms are the ones most eager to play up the importance of democratic norms.  That's weird.