Biden’s foreign policy fairy tale threatens a strategic train wreck

It is mid-September, under 100 days until the presidential election and it’s finally time to start taking the polls seriously. And, at present, despite some slippage, you would rather be Joe Biden than Donald Trump.

The RealClearPolitics aggregate of polling has Biden up 51% to 43% nationally, and (more importantly) 49% to 45% in the battleground states, tighter but just outside the margin of error. While the race is far from over, if it were held today Biden would likely find himself the 46th President of the United States.

In the Democratic Wilsonian fairy tale, having vanquished Trump the wicked king, our hero would then proceed to put everything foreign and domestic back in order, as the true heir to the sainted Barack Obama. Having dealt with Trump the usurper, a rightful restoration would becalm a fraught America, as well as leavening tensions in the wider world.

While this story – like the best of the genre – is beguiling, it is also far from real. For, as the novelist Thomas Wolfe tragically pointed out, ‘you can never go home again’.

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