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I gauge the success of the Biden administration, like all presidencies, based on its outcomes:

• Covid Vaccine Program: 100% success, or as much as possible since Trump encouraged the anti-vaxxers, and screwed up herd immunity.

• Post-Maga Economic Recovery Program: Every Democrat President has to open with an economic recovery plan to fix the mess left behind by EVERY Republican/MAGA president, and Biden's was very successful.

With those two initiatives, Biden could have been in the Top 10 of presidents, but he had to do a good job for the rest of his term, which he didn't.

After the Covid and Stimulus programs, his most urgent priority was to gain control of MAGA, and deal with them as the genuine National Security Threat that they had become. They had thrown a goddamned VIOLENT INSURRECTION, and tried to overthrow the government!

That happened only a couple of weeks before Biden took office. He would have been well within his Constitutional and legal rights to step off the podium after his Inauguration, and immediately ordered the round-up of all MAGA leadership, remanding them to Guantanamo Bay for extensive interrogation. What nation allows the leadership of a proven treasonous organization to wander totally free, and even openly plot to steal the NEXT election? It is literally the most egregious case of Presidential Malpractice I can think of.

And now MAGA is back, and Trump has taken a baseball bat into the World's China Shop, because he's trying to distract from the last 10 carefully balanced global and national institutions he's destroyed. Now he's working on the delicate oil/fertilizer/food balance, just so he can manipulate the markets, and make people forget the name Epstein, another major issue that the Biden administration badly neglected.

Trump was elected partially because Biden's lack of action on the Epstein Files made many Republicans assume that it was because it was filled with Democrats, so they voted MAGA to get justice that the Dems wouldn't offer. One more easily avoidable Biden failure.

MAGA came back because Biden was too weak to even look in the same direction of the worst National Security Threat since the Civil War, and for what? The simple reason is that Democrats are too obsessed with being polite to that very same National Security Threat. MAGA doesn't deserve politeness nor respect, they deserve prison, or worse, and the Biden (and Democratic) Ostrich Doctrine has badly damaged the entire world.

It's all about outcomes, and while Biden had a couple of successes, he blew it badly in some vitally important ones, and the primary outcome of the Biden administration was the recovery of MAGA.

For that, Biden's legacy is justifiably ruined, and he will be permanently ensconced in the Bottom 10 of American Presidents.

I see the situation very clearly, while you're still out there simping for the guy who had the best opportunity to stop MAGA's rise, and didn't even bother to acknowledge that they were a problem. And I'M the one with my head up my ass?