| Wman1996 said: Anybody find it interesting how nice Joe Biden has been to Donald Trump since after Election Day? Maybe some of the stuff about the AI President parodies are real? Haha. |
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Biden comes from a time when politicians at least paid lip service to written and unwritten rules about protocol and statesmanship in government, and Biden seems to genuinely believe in them. Besides, what would it gain him at this point to be rude to Trump? He's a retired politician, and he knows there are no guardrails in the government anymore. Look what they want to do with a member of clergy that delivered a mild but pointed rebuke to the Trump administration. He probably doesn't trust Trump to not try to push the envelope on ignoring presidential pardons and going after his family and colleagues anyway.
That's part of why this collection of junkyard dogs gets what it wants. They realized the first time around that the system of checks and balances is an illusion. Trump was held at bay the first time not by constitutionally defined mechanisms, but by the American equivalent of the Praetorian Guard. This time, he's made sure that the Praetorian Guard is loyal to Caesar. Democrats have tried to maintain institutional respect. Biden tried to work in good faith with a Congress and courts loaded with bad-faith actors. He probably secretly wished that he could get away with flouting customs and law like Trump does in enacting his agenda.
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