To admirers, Biden will remain one of the most consequential one-term presidents in US history \u2013 to detractors, he was undone by a fatal flaw<\/p>\n
His back straight, his voice steady, Joe Biden stood at the US Capitol just days after a violent insurrection and declared<\/a>: \u201cDemocracy has prevailed.\u201d Fast forward three and a half years and America\u2019s president cut a different, diminished figure. \u201cWe finally beat Medicare,\u201d he muttered in confusion in Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p>\n From the soaring hopes of inauguration day to that grim debate night against Donald Trump, the very public decline of the 46th president had the makings of an American tragedy that paved the way for the return of Trump<\/a> to the White House.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To admirers, Biden will remain one of the most consequential one-term presidents in US history \u2013 to detractors, he was undone by a fatal flaw His back straight, his voice steady, Joe Biden stood at the US Capitol just days after a violent insurrection and declared: \u201cDemocracy has prevailed.\u201d Fast forward three and a half … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}