Washington Correspondent
He had been hailed as a new Franklin Roosevelt, and his term as that of a new New Deal, an in-depth reform of the American social and economic system.
His immense Senate experience made him the heir to Lyndon Johnson, who had a reputation for never losing a vote in Congress and had pushed through civil rights legislation.
A year later, Joe Biden is now compared to Jimmy Carter, the unfortunate Democratic president, idealistic but clumsy, unlucky in foreign policy and inexperienced in domestic politics, humiliated by the hostage-taking in Tehran and victim of the oil shock, who had was defeated after one term by Ronald Reagan.
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Having once again become the cruel commentator on the misfortunes of others, Trump even felt that the comparison was unfair to Carter.
“Carter was only badly managing crisis after crisis, Biden him, provokes crisis after crisis”
, mocked the former president cruelly.
But even the press...
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