Do you know the terms "forced error" and "unforced error"? Originally from tennis, we sometimes use the terms in the political or policy arenas, where a forced error is of the "damned if you do, damned if you don't" variety. Any choice you make ends you up in hot water.
Leaving the forced variety aside, examine all the unforced errors Joe Biden has made as president. I hope no one reading this believes he did a good job of extracting US forces from Afghanistan, it is widely regarded as a cluster-futz.
Similarly with immigration. He could have stopped building the wall and tinkered with a couple of minor regulations and his base would have accepted it. Instead he created a flood of illegal immigration that became his major shortcoming.
Trying to get the economy out of the Covid "blues" he spent government funds like a drunken sailor on shore leave. You know his economists cautioned it would be inflationary but he did it anyway.
His failing health and mental acuity were things over which he had no control, forced "errors" of a sort. But the things where people are comparing him invidiously with Trump are things he didn't have to do to be an okay president.
Biden made bad policy choices that will be the main cudgels with which Trump will beat him, and those were unforced. He may have been following bad advice, but as Harry Truman famously said, "The buck stops with the President."
