Obama alumni blast ‘stubborn old man’ Biden’s ‘reckless’ January 6 op-ed

Liberal hosts behind “Pod Save America” ​​slammed President Biden’s Washington Post op-ed about Jan. 6 as “reckless” and blasted Democrats for “virtue-mongering” after that Vice President Kamala Harris certified the election of Donald Trump on Monday.

“There’s a whole language that Democrats just need to throw in the trash, like ‘institutions,’ ‘democracy,’ ‘this is sacred,'” said Jon Favreau, who served as one of the speechwriters of former President Barack Obama.

Biden warned Monday that America risks a repeat of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot if the history of the day is forgotten, and called on the country to “commit to remembering” the incident every year.

“But we must not forget. We must remember the wisdom of the adage that any nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it. We cannot accept a repeat of what happened four years,” Biden wrote.

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Jon Lovett, co-host of the podcast and former Obama speechwriter, claimed that Biden misunderstood the quote about repeating history, coined by philosopher George Santayana, and went so far as to compare Biden to a “stubborn old man”.

“If you get too mired in the past, if you become, like the original philosopher, stubborn like an old man, you are also doomed to repeat yourself,” Lovett said.

“It’s pretty,” said Tommy Vietor, co-host and former Obama spokesman.

The hosts criticized the editorial as being out of step with the American electorate, admitting that the majority of voters “didn’t care” about the events of January 6.

“Biden’s op-ed didn’t say anything,” Favreau said. “An editorial on January 6 perfectly sums up how irresponsible everything seems right now.”

The Democratic Party faces growing calls to change the way it communicates with voters, with critics alleging it relies on too “woke” and academic rhetoric that alienates ordinary people.

Clinton campaign alumnus James Carville called on Democrats to tone down the “silly NPR jargon” when speaking to voters in an interview Sunday with MSNBC host Jen Psaki.

“Let’s be real and accurate,” Carville said.

The hosts continued to criticize Biden’s op-ed for failing to offer concrete steps to combat what they view as a “coup attempt” by Trump.

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“Our party is just a sad editorial,” Vietor said.

“Democrats virtue-signalling, constantly explaining why the insurrection is so terrible, hasn’t worked. That style of politics doesn’t work,” Lovett said.

Vietor claimed the article made him “very frustrated once again with the fact that Joe Biden is running for re-election.” The trio was part of the liberal pressure campaign against the president to withdraw from his re-election bid after a dismal debate against Trump in June.

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Although there were indications throughout his first term that Biden was experiencing decline, Democrats and mainstream media outlets frequently covered his declining mental state.

“Her mental acuity is excellent. Everything is fine. She is as good as she has been over the years. All this right-wing propaganda that her mental acuity has diminished is false,” the senator said. era. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told “Meet The Press” in February.

Vietor called Biden and his close aides “delusional,” after which the Washington Post reported that they believed he would have won the election if he had stayed in the race.

In a November episode of the podcast, Favreau claimed that Biden’s internal polling caused him to lose the election by “400 electoral votes.”

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Biden is not the only Democratic politician to be accused of tone deafness. After Harris’ campaign leaders appeared on a post-mortem episode of Pod Save America in November, listeners accused them of “taking no responsibility” for her loss.