Biden's career-ending speech

Peggy Noonan: "Joe Biden’s voting rights speech backfired more than he ever could have imagined"

The president’s Tuesday speech in Atlanta, on voting rights, was a disaster for him. By the end of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s answering speech on Wednesday you knew some new break point had occurred, that President Biden might have thought he was just crooning to part of his base but the repercussions were greater than that; he was breaking in some new way with others — and didn’t know it. It is poor political practice when you fail to guess the effects of your actions. He meant to mollify an important constituency but instead he filled his opponents with honest indignation and, I suspect, encouraged in that fractured group some new unity. 

The speech itself was aggressive, intemperate, not only offensive but meant to offend. It seemed prepared by people who think there is only the Democratic Party in America, that’s it, everyone else is an outsider who can be disparaged. 

It was a mistake on so many levels.

This speech was in the same spirit of Hillary's "deplorables" speech and maybe Obama's "cling to guns and religion" quote.  Allegedly, Applesauce-brain Joe is going to deign to give a formal press conference next week and really his best move would be to apologize for that garbage speech.  He should put it behind him and make a new dedication to the "unity" he once spoke about.

But he probably won't, because he's Joe Biden.