Joe Biden: The Best Person to Govern Post-Trump America

Most discussions surrounding Joe Biden center on the debate between the “He’s got the best chance of beating Trump!” faction and the “I don’t care, he’s not where the Democratic Party is right now!” camp. Which is striking to me because that debate glosses over the most salient feature of his candidacy: The fact that Biden is the person best equipped to clean up the mess created by Donald Trump.

And what a mess it is. In twenty-eight months Trump has: weakened Americans’ trust in the press, cast suspicion on the FBI, turned the Justice Department into his own personal law firm, led by managing partner William Barr, attempted to eviscerate Congress’s constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the executive branch, exacted serious damage on America’s relationships with critical allies like Germany and Great Britain, undermined the strongest and most important strategic alliance in world history (NATO), to the delight of our mortal enemy Russia, and coddled the world’s most nefarious dictators (Putin, Kim Jong Un, Duterte, Erdogan, el-Sisi…it’s a long list and I don’t have the space.)

Righting the ship of America after this storm Trump has wrought will be enormously difficult. But Joe Biden is the one person who can get the job done. Why? Because he is the polar opposite of Trump in the three critical areas where Trump has plunged America into an existential…