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OPINION:<\/strong><\/p>\n

If there is one thing the Biden family is exceptionally good at these days, it is misreading the room.<\/p>\n

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Right now, there is a full-court press underway to salvage Joe Biden\u2019s political legacy. It is a desperate, multifront public relations offensive designed to remind us that he is a conquering hero, not just the guy who fumbled the ball so catastrophically that Donald Trump is back in the White House.<\/p>\n

But not everyone is buying the spin. As Tommy Vietor, former Obama spokesman and \u201cPod Save America\u201d co-host, so perfectly crystallized the prevailing mood among exhausted Democrats: \u201cJoe Biden is only a victim of what others did to him. He never views the country as the victim of what he did to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ouch. But also, spot on.<\/p>\n

A New York Magazine piece last week paints a remarkably bleak, yet tragically comedic, picture of this redemption tour. In early June, the 83-year-old former president found himself standing at a lectern inside a Best Western in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He was there to address a crowd of 1,200 Democrats who were aggressively munching on iceberg lettuce with ranch dressing.<\/p>\n

He assured the crowd he had to leave early for a goddaughter\u2019s wedding \u2014 \u201cSo when I run off the stage, it\u2019s not because I\u2019m afraid to hear the response,\u201d he joked. He then delivered a speech characterized by soft mumbling punctuated by sudden, inexplicable bursts of yelling, along with his trademark: losing his train of thought and just trailing off into silence.<\/p>\n

The entire Sioux Falls spectacle was just one stop on a broader, aggressive campaign by the Biden inner circle to assert that time is healing all wounds. Rufus Gifford, a former campaign finance chairman, insists that \u201cwithout a doubt, every day, there is less of a \u201924 hangover.\u201d<\/p>\n

But if you ask the actual campaign staffers who had to live through the wreckage, the hangover is a raging, incurable migraine. One former staffer laid it out plainly to the magazine: \u201cI think it is very hard to ever get over the fact that he is responsible for the hellscape that we live in now. It is undeniable that his hubris cost us. He was an extremely impactful president who was successful in delivering tangible wins for Americans, but all of that is washed away.\u201d<\/p>\n

And if Joe\u2019s lingering hubris wasn\u2019t enough to torpedo the legacy-salvaging mission, Jill Biden has swooped in to ensure everything is completely messed up.<\/p>\n

The former first lady recently released a memoir titled \u201cView From the East Wing,\u201d which has served less as a reflection on her time in the White House and more as a spectacular master class in rewriting history. Jill has been touring the country telling interviewers that her husband absolutely would have beaten Mr. Trump if the pesky Democratic establishment hadn\u2019t pushed him out.<\/p>\n

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But in her book, she casually drops the bombshell that during the disastrous 2024 debate, she wondered if her husband had suffered a stroke or was drugged. Yet, at the time, she said nothing, acting as his fiercest defender and letting him march into a Waffle House for a photo op.<\/p>\n

The defense of her own nonintervention is particularly rich. On the biggest decisions \u2014 whether her husband should run again, whether he should drop out \u2014 she claims she stayed out of it. The fierce \u201cmama bear\u201d who once punched a bully for picking on her sister apparently went completely passive when the stakes were the actual presidency. Convenient.<\/p>\n

Not to be left out of the family\u2019s media blitz, Hunter Biden has completely rebranded himself as an internet troll. Reentering the chat on X, Hunter has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers by posting about his sobriety and picking fights with journalists.<\/p>\n

He has gone after CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper \u2014 comparing him to the dim-witted \u201cAnchorman\u201d character Brick Tamland \u2014 for daring to criticize his mother, while hypocritically pointing fingers at the Trump family\u2019s business dealings.<\/p>\n

The Bidens are desperately trying to force the public to look at them, hoping we will suddenly see a legacy of triumph instead of a cautionary tale of stubbornness. But as former President Obama\u2019s longtime campaign guru David Axelrod so astutely pointed out, dragging Mr. Biden back into the limelight is a spectacularly bad strategy.<\/p>\n

\u201cPutting him front and center will remind people why he was forced to leave the stage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

There it is. The fundamental flaw in the entire enterprise: The best argument against the Biden legacy tour is the Bidens themselves. Every shaky speech, every lost thread, every chapter of Jill\u2019s memoir doesn\u2019t rehabilitate the legacy \u2014 it explains it.<\/p>\n

As F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, \u201cThere are no second acts in American lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2022 Joseph Curl covered the White House and politics for a decade for The Washington Times. He can be reached at josephcurl@gmail.com and on X @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n

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