This article examines the legacy of President Joe Biden, highlighting both his achievements and the challenges he faced during his single term. While he navigated the country through a pandemic and economic turmoil, ultimately his presidency will be remembered for the controversial reelection bid that paved the way for Donald Trump's potential return to power.
Joe Biden aimed to be remembered as the man who rescued America from the Donald Trump era. Instead, his legacy might be marked by inadvertently paving the way for Trump's return to the White House. While future generations might view Biden's presidency with more leniency, his single term will be inevitably defined by his decision to seek reelection in 2024, defying concerns about his age.
Many will remember Biden, 82, as a visibly strained figure struggling for words in a disastrous 2024 debate against Trump, an event that ultimately led to his withdrawal from the race. His vice president, Kamala Harris, faced the daunting task of preventing Trump's comeback. Though Biden maintained until the end that he could have defeated his Republican rival, he acknowledged that restoring his reputation would take time. 'It will take time to feel the full impact of all we have done together, but the seeds are planted,' he stated in his farewell address. Biden's inauguration in January 2021 was a triumphant return for a politician often underestimated, who had spent a lifetime overcoming political hurdles and personal tragedies. However, he was an unlikely savior. At the time, Biden was the oldest elected president in US history, a title he held until Trump's 2024 victory. He was known more for his gaffes and his role as Barack Obama's vice president than for any remarkable achievements. He confronted formidable challenges. The nation was reeling from the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack by Trump supporters protesting his election loss, and the US economy was crippled by the Covid-19 pandemic. Biden swiftly implemented a massive pandemic recovery plan and a substantial green investment initiative, aiming to revitalize American industries and infrastructure. He appointed Harris as the first Black, South Asian, and female vice president. Western allies lauded his commitment to alliances that Trump had disregarded. Perhaps Biden's most celebrated achievement was his unwavering support for Ukraine against Russia's 2022 invasion, culminating in his covert visit to Kyiv in 2023. However, Biden's popularity suffered an early blow due to the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, from which it never fully recovered. His approval rating plummeted to a mere 36 percent in a final CNN poll. The pandemic stimulus he enacted fueled inflation, contributing to the reasons why Americans criticized Harris at the polls. His lenient border policies resulted in record numbers of illegal immigrants crossing the border, a point that Trump relentlessly exploited. While he claimed to bolster his legacy with a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, he angered many with his unwavering support for Israel's war against Hamas, despite the mounting death toll. Despite these setbacks, Biden believed he was the only one capable of defeating Trump once more. Drawing on his background as a child with a stutter from a working-class, Irish Catholic family in Pennsylvania, he frequently invoked his father's motto: 'When you get knocked down, you get back up.' He had endured the devastating loss of his wife and infant daughter in a car accident in 1972, just days after being elected as a US senator at the age of 29, and rebuilt his life with his second wife, First Lady Jill Biden. He also faced the grief of losing his eldest son, Beau, to brain cancer in 2015, and the drug and legal problems of his younger son, Hunter, whom he controversially pardoned
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