WaPo columnist doesn’t get why ‘Bidenism is failing’ when he’s been ‘emphasizing unity’, ‘popular policies’

“Bidenism is failing. But we don’t know exactly why or what it portends for the future," WaPo Opinion columnist Perry Bacon Jr. wrote on Tuesday.

The writer claimed, "Joe Biden’s successful 2020 campaign and his approach to the presidency were premised on the idea that an older, White, male and moderate politician who focuses on such things as the economy and COVID-19, and who generally avoids issues such as abortion and transgender rights, could ease the country’s partisan divisions."

Bacon Jr. described how Biden’s advisers even thought this approach could make him "more effective than Barack Obama was, because conservative White voters would feel less threatened by him and congressional Republicans would be more willing to work with a longtime former colleague."