Thank You, Joe Biden.
People are not caricatures. They are human beings. Humans have great capacity for good and evil.
For the past 10 months many across the country and around the world have marveled at the evil (or at least egregious failure) flowing from Joe Biden’s foreign policy on Gaza. That is real. More than 186,000 people are now dead and they cannot come back directly because of President Biden’s refusal to attach conditions on military aid to Israel—even in the face of war crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, and plausible genocide. I think we now have reason to ask if the cognitive decline we witnessed in the debate has had anything to do with Biden’s decision-making on Gaza. Time will tell.
But in this moment, I want to acknowledge the good.
Joe Biden is the most successful president in modern history on domestic policy. The policies of this man—a member of The Silent Generation—have lain foundations for a thriving United States into the 21st century. Biden’s Covid Rescue Plan, his climate legislation, infrastructure legislation, first major gun safety legislation, the CHIPS Act brought tech jobs home to the U.S., and his Inflation Reduction Act reduced the cost of critical medications, like Insulin, as well as funding for initiatives that bring the American fiscal house into order.
But even more consequential than this, today Joe Biden has *demonstrated* for us the kind of selfless leadership for which The Silent Generation is known.
Facing the truth of his faltering candidacy and its dire consequences, Joe Biden placed the good of the country above his own ambition. He chose to believe in the capacity of the next generations to run the race set before our nation—the race to save democracy.
As Biden stepped down, he endorsed Kamala Harris to take the baton.
There will be a process, set by the @thedemocrats. She will earn her nomination and she will run this race.
I will do everything in my power to support her in this next great struggle in the story of the United States of America.
Thank you for the good, @joebiden.
May God bless your nomination, @kamalaharris.
To the rest of us. It’s on!
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President and founder of FreedomRoad.us, Lisa Sharon Harper is a writer, podcaster and public theologian. Lisa is author of critically acclaimed book, Fortune: How Race Broke My Family And The World—And How To Repair It All.
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