The problem for President Biden as he gave his first State of the Union address was not so much that the nation was in crisis but that there were so many of them, sbg1 writes.
The problem for President Biden during his first State of the Union address, on Tuesday night, was not that the nation was in crisis but that there were so many of them. Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine. Inflation. Thepandemic. Gun violence. Cancer. The country’s fraying democracy. He seemed to mention all in the course of his address—which clocked in at an hour and two minutes—without necessarily making a particularly strong argument for what he would do about any of them.
A few days ago, before the full scale of Putin’s plans became clear, Speaker Nancy Pelosi had compared histo Hitler’s annexation of the Sudetenland, in 1938—the prelude to the Second World War. A week later, with horrific shelling in Ukraine’s cities and a war that seems intent on obliterating Ukraine as a nation, the analogy that now comes to mind is the Nazi invasion of Poland, in 1939, which marked not the war’s prologue but its actual start.
In Europe, the invasion of Ukraine has, after years of indifference to pleas from four successive U.S. Administrations to take Putin’s threats more seriously, caused a swift and decisive policy shift, of the kind that has little recent precedent.
But the truth is that, no matter what Biden said or how much anyone clapped when he trash-talked Putin, few in Washington are under any illusions of a new era of bipartisanship breaking out, on foreign policy or anything else. Republicans have turned their predictions of Biden’s “failure” as the President into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Whatever the issue, whatever he did or said or didn’t do or didn’t say—this was the plan from the start. And it has worked well for them politically.
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