{"id":104938,"date":"2020-09-12T10:30:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T14:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=104938"},"modified":"2020-09-12T08:47:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T12:47:21","slug":"infighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104938","title":{"rendered":"Infighting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-78135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Redtail-hawk-and-redwing-2009-Web-view-copy-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Redtail-hawk-and-redwing-2009-Web-view-copy-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Redtail-hawk-and-redwing-2009-Web-view-copy.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The following is an opinion piece well worth the brief time it takes to read it. It is short and to the point. The link to the full article is below.\u00a0 Speculating about what might\/might not happen in an administration with someone at the helm whose faculties are slowly eroding, as many videos have shown, is valid, but the author&#8217;s assumption is that Biden&#8217;s slips and peculiar responses are par for the course with him.<\/p>\n<p>From Powerline blog:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/bidens-flexibility-on-policy-could-mean-bloody-fights-if-he-wins\/2020\/09\/06\/b8d66c3c-e622-11ea-bc79-834454439a44_story.html\">This article<\/a>\u00a0in today\u2019s Washington Post is called, \u201cBiden\u2019s flexibility on policy could mean fierce fights if he wins.\u201d In the paper edition, it\u2019s called \u201cBiden\u2019s fluid ideas portend fierce fights if he\u2019s elected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Notice the difference. \u201cFlexibility\u201d is often a desirable trait in a leader. Having \u201cfluid ideas,\u201d not so much.<\/p>\n<p>The article itself, by Annie Linskey, goes with flexibility. It portrays Biden as a skillful mediator of conflicting views. In the end, it\u2019s something of a puff piece.<\/p>\n<p>Linskey\u2019s premise is correct, though. There are conflicting views among leading Democrats about how Biden should govern if he becomes president. Some would want him to govern from the left, as Barack Obama did. Others would want him to govern from the far left, as Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders would have done.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politics-prose.com\/book\/9781621578369\"><em>Fight House<\/em><\/a>, Tevi Troy\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2020\/02\/fight-house-tevi-troys-superb-history-of-modern-white-house-infighting.php\">excellent book<\/a> about infighting at the White House from the Truman presidency on, shows that ideological disagreement is, in fact, one of the best predictors of how fierce the fighting within an administration will be. On this basis alone, we can expect considerable White House tumult, if Biden wins. &#8211; article<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the op-ed piece is here:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2020\/09\/expect-epic-infighting-if-biden-becomes-president.php\">https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2020\/09\/expect-epic-infighting-if-biden-becomes-president.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the meaning of tumult is taken literally, it can mean nothing gets done because so much squabbling and power-grabbing are going on that no one has time for anything else.<\/p>\n<p>Read it to the end. The realistic suggestion is that so much infighting would occur, nothing would get done other than a Biden administration tilting to the far left. But maybe they\u2019d just rip each others\u2019 hearts out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an opinion piece well worth the brief time it takes to read it. &hellip; <a title=\"Infighting?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=104938\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Infighting?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,518],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104939,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104938\/revisions\/104939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}