Joe Biden is spending the final weeks of his presidency desperately trying to forge a positive legacy. But one of his appointees may have already helped define it for him.
In the final, pathetic weeks of his failed presidency, Joe Biden has been casting about desperately for a positive legacy. He has liberally distributed pardons and commutations, as well as presidential medals of freedom. He has leaned on progressives, whose ego-inflating counsel helped destroy his presidency, to rescue its historical reputation. And he and his allies have retailed counterfactuals about how the Afghanistan withdrawal was a success, and how he would have won the 2024 election if he had run instead of Kamala Harris, his vice president.
