Democrats Whine: “There’s No Leadership Coming From the White House”

Well, duh. There never has been leadership from “the big guy” getting his ten percent.

We touched on this topic yesterday by noting the world is ready to move on from the Biden era (error?) and embrace the new Trump presidency well before inauguration day.

It’s not just outside perception driving the narrative that President Biden appears to be offering nothing regarding leadership, it’s the reality inside the White House as well. The man is perhaps the lamest or lame duck. He has nothing left to offer and that’s partially because he never really did.

For Democrats only now lamenting Biden’s terrible leadership, welcome to the club. As Politico reports, the mood in and around the Biden administration is like watching a long and drawn-out funeral procession:

Biden has effectively disappeared from the radar in the wake of Democrats’ bruising electoral loss. Since Nov. 5, he’s largely stuck to prepared remarks, avoided unscripted public appearances or press questions and opted to sit out the raging debate over Donald Trump’s victory, policy conversations in Congress and the Democratic Party’s future.

“He’s been so cavalier and selfish about how he approaches the final weeks of the job,” said a former White House official.

The White House and Biden, they say, has shown little interest in helping chart the party’s future beyond Jan. 20, the day of Trump’s inauguration. Biden has focused his aides’ energies largely on managing the presidential transition and tending to a few final items meant to burnish his legacy, including a speech on the economy Tuesday. And Vice President Kamala Harris, who cast herself on the campaign trail as the future of the party, has all but disappeared from the scene.

“There is no leadership coming from the White House,” one Democrat close to senior lawmakers stated bluntly. “There is a total vacuum.”

Anyone thinking that Kamala Harris would magically step up and fill the power void left by the departing Biden is deluding themselves. Harris was never the party’s future, she was more like a footnote of DEI incompetence on the way to someone else.

Furthermore, Joe Biden has never been a visionary or a leader on anything outside conventional Washington wisdom. He attacks all the same players in the same ways he always has. It’s a political game for the Biden regime and America has been losing for the past four years.

Good riddance, frankly, to Biden’s influence. If that’s what leadership looked like coming from Joe Biden, we could stand to do with less of it.

Ironically, while some Democrats are mad that Biden has thrown in the towel, there’s another faction that would like him to remain silent:

Still, the void at the top has alarmed Democratic officials who worry and the country is heading toward next year without a concrete plan for combating Trump — or even tangible motivation to put up much of a fight. POLITICO spoke to almost two dozen party officials, lawmakers, current and former White House aides and other Democratic staffers for this story, some of whom were granted anonymity in order to offer their candid assessment.

“Elections have consequences — It’s a new sheriff in town,” Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) said.

While Biden has offered little in the way of leadership, officials say there’s also not much demand from the party’s rank and file — including lawmakers and aides — to hear from a president they still blame for relegating them back into the minority.

It’s true, what can BIden say at this point to offer Democrats new hope for the future? The old playbook failed spectacularly on the national stage. They outright called Donald Trump Hitler and it didn’t work, what else is left at this point once you fire all the big guns? They called Trump every other name in the book as well and America flatly rejected it and decided that Democrats are the party of chaos and division, not Republicans.

For Democrats hoping that Joe or Kamala would somehow emerge as leaders during this transition, perhaps they haven’t been paying attention. There never was leadership from the White House which is evidenced by the current unrest all over the globe and a flailing domestic policy here at home.

Americans were craving some new bold leadership that offered more than demonizing the other side, and they got it on November 5.