something I just posted on Facebook regarding the Trump-Merz press conference -

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2. I wouldn't rank Biden as the best in my lifetime.

My lifetime includes LBJ and Jimmy Carter, both of whom were more consequential in the longer term. And Obama is, in my view, the greatest president of my lifetime.

But Biden was a very, very good president. He knew how to work with a recalcitrant Congress, and he understood what he was expected to do. He carried himself throughout his administration with the grace and stolidness we expect from our head of state. He also cleaned up a lot of the mess his predecessor left behind. History will remember him well.

Trump? His name will become a perjorative, like quisling, dunce (based on 13th-century "scholar" Duns Scotus), or chauvinist. No one will want to be a self-centered, ignorant bigot who thinks the world owes him something for having done nothing except cheat those weaker than him. No one will want to be a trump.

We're not in that world yet, but I really do think it will come, and during my lifetime.