The Will to Power and the Presidency
The presidential candidates this year demonstrate a will to power that seeks to undercut reality itself.
After his spectacularly dreadful debate performance against Donald Trump, Joe Biden jumped on the opportunity (if that phrase can be applied to the man) to calm the storm of calls for his resignation by having an interview on ABC—to prove to the 50 million debate watchers who cringingly watched him sputtering like an old jalopy that he was up for the job. The result was not much better and did…