{"id":432530,"date":"2022-04-16T04:51:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T01:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/theres-nothing-normal-about-the-joe-biden-era\/"},"modified":"2022-04-16T04:51:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T01:51:11","slug":"theres-nothing-normal-about-the-joe-biden-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/theres-nothing-normal-about-the-joe-biden-era\/","title":{"rendered":"#There&#8217;s nothing &#8216;normal&#8217; about the Joe Biden era"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a279d7ddc4f7\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a279d7ddc4f7\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/theres-nothing-normal-about-the-joe-biden-era\/#%E2%80%9CTheres_nothing_%E2%80%98normal_about_the_Joe_Biden_era%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing &#8216;normal&#8217; about the Joe Biden era&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CTheres_nothing_%E2%80%98normal_about_the_Joe_Biden_era%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing &#8216;normal&#8217; about the Joe Biden era&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Rich Lowry\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Joe Biden is falling down on his promise to bring normality back to the presidency for a basic reason \u2014 he\u2019s not normal.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s long pedigree, conventional politics and contrast with Donald Trump suggested that he\u2019d bring predictability and calm to the highest reaches of the nation\u2019s politics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The press touted this impending shift. A headline in The Financial Times announced, \u201cBiden signals return to normality on first day as president.\u201d The CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza opined, \u201cThe single most radical thing that Biden has done in his first 48 hours of being president is act totally and completely normally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, a funny thing h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened on the way to renewed normality \u2014 President Biden has engaged in one bizarre escapade after another as he\u2019s crashed his presidency into the rocks of incompetence, tone-deafness and stubbornly misplaced priorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not normal for a president to say things flagrantly at odds with his own administration\u2019s position, but there was Joe Biden the other day saying that Vladimir Putin is committing genocide in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-nypost-small-post\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"231\" height=\"258\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/frontc3ovv.jpg?w=231\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21926500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/frontc3ovv.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=462 462w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/frontc3ovv.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=346 346w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/frontc3ovv.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=231 231w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/frontc3ovv.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=115 115w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/frontc3ovv.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>This statement fared about as well as his declaration that Putin has to be removed from power, or the distinction he made between a Russian invasion and \u201cminor incursion\u201d at a press conference prior to the war.<\/p>\n<p>The president, his aides said of his latest meandering, \u201cspoke from his heart\u201d (Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland), and \u201cis allowed to make his views known at any point he would like\u201d (White House press secretary Jen Psaki).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This amounted to administration officials patting the president on the head and telling people not to take whatever he says too seriously.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(In this, Biden is continuing in the unfortunate tradition established by Donald Trump of issuing readily ignored presidential pronouncements.)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Ukraine-10.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Rescuers carry the body of a woman, who was found inside a building that was destroyed by Russian shelling, amid Russia's Invasion of Ukraine, in Borodyanka, Kyiv region, Ukraine April 11, 2022. \" class=\"wp-image-21925523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Ukraine-10.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Ukraine-10.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Ukraine-10.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Joe Biden can\u2019t seem to decide whether there\u2019s a \u201cgenocide\u201d or a \u201cminor incursion\u201d going on in Ukraine.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS\/Zohra Bensemra<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s not normal for a president to be such a tepid performer that it\u2019s very difficult for him to command a stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not normal for a president to misspeak so routinely that it almost seems strange when he gets it right.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not normal for a president to shovel trillions of dollars into a growing economy, and then still want to spend trillions more when it\u2019s clear that inflation is a real problem.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Californiaoil.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Active pump jacks increase pressure to draw oil toward the surface at the South Belridge Oil Field on February 26, 2022, in unincorporated Kern County, California.\" class=\"wp-image-21925591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Californiaoil.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Californiaoil.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Californiaoil.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Joe Biden doesn\u2019t realize the US has plenty of oil refineries to ramp up domestic production while Americans suffer at the pump.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">ROBYN BECK\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s not normal for a president to want to suppress US oil and gas production at the same time he begs OPEC to pump more.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not normal for a president to open the floodgates for illegal migration at the southern border and pretend that if he doesn\u2019t call the ensuring deluge a \u201ccrisis,\u201d it somehow isn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not normal for a president to abandon his longstanding support for the Senate filibuster to try to pass a no-hope Democratic voting bill, and warn of looming autocracy if the legislation doesn\u2019t pass.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Haitian-migrants.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Haitian migrants cross the Rio Grande south into Ciudad Acuna from Del Rio, Texas, as they leave the migrant encampment underneath the Del Rio International Bridge after concerns of food scarcity and expulsions to Haiti on Monday Sept. 20, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-21925605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Haitian-migrants.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Haitian-migrants.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Haitian-migrants.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Joe Biden refuses to acknowledge the US border crisis is his fault for undoing his predecessor\u2019s policies.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Omar Ornelas\/USA Today Network\/Sipa USA<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s not normal \u2014 or shouldn\u2019t be \u2014 for a president to extend an eviction moratorium that he knows is illegal.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>It\u2019s not normal for a president to abandon Americans in a foreign country after his withdrawal of US forces, against the advice of his <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>s, leads to a hostile force rapidly sweeping to power.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not normal for a president\u2019s son and brother to get millions of dollars in easy money from a company that is a cat\u2019s paw of the Chinese government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not normal for a first-term president to be on the verge of becoming a lame duck because almost no one believes his assurances that he\u2019s going to run again (only 41% of Democrats in a recent Wall Street Journal poll say they think Biden will run in 2024).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a badly divided country at a time of growing threats abroad and of declining faith in US institutions. These are serious challenges that it would take deft, far-sighted presidential leadership to overcome. Instead, what\u2019s on offer isn\u2019t even above-average presidential leadership, and that\u2019s not going to change.<\/p>\n<p>For Joe Biden, this rocky, uninspired performance is indeed the norm.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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