Yahoo News runs a Bloomberg story about gas stations running dry after the east coast petroleum pipeline is hacked, and lines of cars trying to fill up. The last time this happened Jimmy Carter was president.
Lines of cars at gas stations is a hallmark of loser presidencies. Joe Biden would like to be FDR 3.0 (LBJ was briefly 2.0) but is on a trajectory to achieve Carter 2.0 status.
I am forced to conclude the American electorate whimsically chooses to do without a robust president every few decades, electing ciphers like Carter or Biden. Maybe it’s more often than that, Obama and Bush II were also “men without chests” to use the C.S. Lewis label.
