William L. Kovacs

December 23, 2024

This fourth issue of the ‘Articles from the Archives’ series, www.ReformTheKakistocracy.com, links five previously published articles on Joe Biden’s diminished capacity to govern. These articles are as current as the day they were written. The series aims to rescue novel discussions of topics that would otherwise be lost in the 402.74 million terabytes of data produced daily.

The ideas for selecting a topic arise from current controversies I have been writing about for years. This set of links was sparked by a December 20, 2024, Wall Street Journal expose titled “White House Made Adjustments for an Aging, Diminished President.” I have been musing on Joe Biden’s slurred speech, lack of focus, and loss of purpose and direction for several years.

Today, I would sum up Biden as “The Pixilated President.” The Grammarist notes that Pixilated is a rarely used 19^th-century word coined from pixie. It means bewildered, “one who is under the sway of a figurative pixie or behaving in a pixielike manner.” Vocabulary.com describes a person being pixilated as being “wacky.”

Within the first several months of Biden’s presidency, his ego had him destined for failure, notwithstanding the mainstream press was promoting a narrative that he was the next Franklin D. Roosevelt. In March of 2021, only three months into his presidency, it became obvious that he would compete with James Buchanan for the title of the worst president in U.S. history. Buchanan was a tough president to beat for that title since he is credited with starting the Civil War. Biden and Buchanan had a lot in common. Both were lifetime politicians, ran basement-type campaigns, and won against men defending higher principles.

By June 2021, it was becoming evident that Biden was placed in the presidency by those who knew he could not handle the job. My first question was rhetorical: How, in a nation of 328 million people, do we elect incompetents? My second question was serious: Who is running the Biden government? Now we know it was his staff. By September 2021, Biden’s blunders proved he was either extremely incompetent or significantly diminished.

My favorites are the last two articles, Puppet Theatre and The Manchurian Administration. While they are ironic to the letter, both are truth to the core.

Links to the collection of Biden articles:

Joe Biden: Will He Be the 21^st c. Buchanan? (March 1, 2021).

Media Avoids the Elephant in the Room: Who Runs the U.S.? (June 1, 2021)

A Government of the Absurd  (September 20, 2021)

Puppet Theatre, Staring Scranton Joe  (August 22, 2022)

The Manchurian Administration, the Movie? (February 1, 2023)

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William L. Kovacs, author of Devolution of Power: Rolling Back the Federal State to Preserve the Republic. It received five stars from Readers’ Favorite. His previous book, Reform the Kakistocracy, received the 2021 Independent Press Award for Political/Social Change. He served as senior vice president for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and chief counsel to a congressional committee. He can be contacted at [email protected]