‘Democracy,’ He Cried, by Douglas Andrews

The contrast couldn’t have been any more stark. There, during the brutal winter of 1777, General George Washington, leader of the Continental Army, kneeled in prayer in the snow of Valley Forge. And there, this past Friday, decrepit Joe Biden, leader of an out-of-touch political party, disgracefully pitted one group of Americans against another and railed against his predecessor as president.

Indeed, Biden’s obsession with Donald Trump is pathological.

That Biden chose Valley Forge to make his first speech of the 2024 campaign was disgraceful but not surprising. He has no shame, and his voters tend to be incurious and ill-informed. General Washington lost some 2,000 men during that six-month encampment at Valley Forge, but Biden didn’t mention this. All he wanted to do was invoke the name of the great leader, the Indispensable Man, so as to add gravity and vitality to a tired and tiresome speech. …