A Postmortem on the Biden Administration


Written by Peter Heck

It’s over. Thank God that is the case, even if he doesn’t know it…

After four of the most predictably bizarre years in the history of the American republic, [we mark] the end of the Joe Biden interlude. I use that term only because I think it’s fair to say that despite all the rhetoric and pretense, all the bombast of a “return to normalcy” that surrounded his campaign and election, the presidency itself was aimless and directionless, amounting to little more than an often-humiliating display of vengeful incompetence.

  • The Afghanistan humiliation
  • The red backdrop speech
  • Two major wars
  • A hostage crisis
  • Record-setting inflation
  • The obvious dementia
  • Border chaos
  • Chinese ascendence
  • The wandering off into the woods and missing the world leader group photo
  • An attempted normalization of trans insanity
  • The infamous debate performance

Putting together an exhaustive list of Biden’s follies would be exhausting. But the failure is indisputable at this point. Even CNN knows it:

Some might be tempted to think Biden’s popularity has cratered because of all the evidence now emerging that reveals the president was unable to fulfill the duties of his office for quite some time – and it was hidden from the American public in one of the most contemptible government/media collusion scandals in history. The latest reports indicating that Biden had no idea he signed an executive order pausing natural gas exports, instead believing he had simply authorized a “study” of the issue. You don’t have to be into conspiracy theories to know that means we’ve been led by a shadowy faction surreptitiously lying to the president and having him sign orders and give directives that do their bidding.

So yes, thank God it’s over.

It’s kind of funny in an odd, perverse way – those who touted Joe Biden for president in 2020 did so on the presumption that he would, “restore norms and strengthen democracy.” Instead, his administration ushered in an undemocratic cabal that destroyed the most precious “norm” of presidential politics by weaponizing nearly every branch and bureaucracy within the federal government to harass, persecute, and punish their opponents.

That’s why there is an optimism among normal American citizens that is not extinguished by melodramatic soliloquies by Washington’s most notorious dramatic performer:

He wasn’t an authoritarian the first term, but he suddenly will be after democratically winning both the popular and electoral votes by significant margins?

It’s histrionic nonsense, that becomes an even tougher sell when the ones pushing it vacillate so freely between that and this:

If Trump is a puppet of, or a subservient dolt following the instructions of a tech billionaire like Musk, then he isn’t much of an authoritarian, is he? Hitler kind of marched to the beat of his own drum, after all. And it’s this type of over-the-top, self-contradictory, theatrical, and self-indicting rhetoric that has lost its effect on average Americans.

It’s why there’s an air of cautious optimism, even among those uninterested in donning a red cap.

If nothing else, we know things are going to be different, because after four brutally long, embarrassing years, it’s finally over.

This article was originally published by NotTheBee.com.

Peter Heck is a writer, speaker, and teacher from Indiana. He is married to Jenny, and is the father of three kids. Peter holds to the infallibility and inerrancy of Scripture in his teaching and writing, and has a passion for biblical literacy and for demonstrating the Bible’s applicability to all of life. 

Peter is the lead opinion writer for “Not the Bee.” His opinions have also been published in the Washington Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. A former radio host, Peter produces a daily podcast and has authored a number of books on Christians and the culture.


categories Executive Branch, Federal Elections, Federal Issues, Political | | datetime January 21, 2025 6:01 AM