"Trump's not really an American president".--Joe Biden to Ron Klain, explaining why he had to run for president.
President Biden is at the end of career in public service. Whether it is six months or four years and six months, the end is in sight. The touchstone of his presidency has been to have no regrets that he did the right thing as he saw it by available light, regardless of personal political consequences.
And he has succeeded. On every issue foreign and domestic he has done and continues to do the right thing and America is stronger, healthier, calmer, and less disunited. He has been stalwart. On Ukraine, he has not wavered; on Israel, he has been consistently consistent. As his political support has ebbed and been dented he holds on firmly to the touchstone: Do the right thing and there will be no regrets.
He is also fighting an existential battle for Democracy in America. Yet, at best, he is in a neck-and-neck battle with an opponent who would make the country weaker, sicker, febrile, rent, and undemocratic, and the greater weight of the evidence is that this American president is headed for defeat in November. If defeat comes he will accept it. There will be no Biden Jan. 6. He will have no regrets that he did the right thing.
