The Cocktail Party Contrarian: What Kind of a Man Is Joe Biden?

The president isn’t thinking about his troubled son, Hunter. His concern is for himself and for his image.

AP/Charles Krupa
President Biden at Auburn, Maine, July 28, 2023. AP/Charles Krupa

In the 2020 presidential election, many Americans were advised to ask themselves one central question before casting their votes: What kind of a man did they want to see in the White House? As it was presented to the public, the choice was a moral one: between the devil incarnate, Donald Trump, and the nice guy, Joe Biden. How voters answered the question determined not only what kind of human being the candidate was deemed to be, but what kind of human beings the voters were as well. 

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