In 2022, PresidentJoe Bidenstood at a crossroads.
His party had just shattered midterm expectations the strongest showing for a first-term president in decades.
Democrats increasingly broke their silence.
President Joe Biden during an address to the nation about his decision not to seek reelection in July.Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
I calibrated my appeal to his outsized ego a trait he shares with the 44 men who preceded him.
Mylegacy-saving solutionwas simple:
One neednt be a presidential historian to see impending disasters everywhere.
He ignored them all.
His truly spectacular list of accomplishments will serve merely as dramatic irony, a glittering prelude to catastrophe.
He conjured 3.1 percent GDP growth from economists doom prophecies.
His unemployment numbers made statisticians blush.
NATO expanded like a European block party with an open bar.
He restored America to something resembling sanity.
And, of course, he can be credited with the first woman and first Black woman vice president.
