Cooke: Let’s Face It — Biden Knows He’s a Mediocrity 

National Review senior editor Charles C. W. Cooke, on today’s edition of The Editors, said that Biden’s recent farewell address shows just “who he is.”

Cooke said that “one of the reasons that he’s always irritable is that at some level, he either knows that he is a mediocrity or he knows that people think that he’s a mediocrity and is frustrated by it.”

“Joe Biden,” Cooke pointed out, “has never had any ideas. And because Joe Biden has never had any ideas, he spent his entire career doing two things, both of which he did [Wednesday] night.

“One of those is trying to be other people. . . . As a president, he has tried to be Franklin Roosevelt. He has tried to be Lyndon Johnson. And [Wednesday] night, he tried to be Eisenhower. And that’s because there isn’t much there in Joe Biden.”

What else has Biden done? He goes “with great enthusiasm -- with whatever idea has come out last week, as if it is the most important cause of the era. He did this when he ran for the Senate in the ’70s. . . . And the thing that trendy progressives are the most annoyed about quite literally this week is that Facebook has changed its moderation policies. We’re mocking it for being in a farewell address, but that’s how Biden works.

“He finds whatever it is that people he thinks are important or . . . he needs to prop him up care about. And he goes with it.”

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