In Theodore Dreiser’s novel “An American Tragedy” (1925), one of the characters tells the hapless protagonist, “Time, which sees all things, has found you out.”
We can now say the same of President Biden. He is poised to become the most discredited American president since Richard Nixon—and with far more reason. The reason goes beyond a special counsel’s report confirming what many of us already knew about the president’s diminished mental and physical capacity. Instead of uniting Americans as he promised in 2020, he has made us weaker and more divided, in large part because he lacked the strength and integrity to do his job. Those closest to him knew it and let it happen. In the end, it isn’t Mr. Biden’s tragedy, or even theirs. It’s America’s.