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Measuring presidential leadership is a tricky business. Being a wise and astute leader can often involve making high-stakes or downright risky decisions to head off expected trouble, or reacting to crises in an appropriate and timely fashion, and striking the right balance between discretion, boldness, and humility. And leadership can just as often be marked by restraint; by what a president chooses not to do when faced with an array of options.
But while the evaluation of leadership is subjective, in the eye of the beholder, there are many approaches to governing that clearly do not represent leadership: doing something easy to grab headlines just because you can – for example, calling America systemically racist when under pressure after never having done so in 40 years in politics, or demanding the rich pay their perpetually undefined “fair share” in taxes. Making a dangerous decision strictly for political gain – think of opening up the southern border, or shutting down the Keystone pipeline, or the insistence on trillions in new spending for Build Back Better as inflation is rising. Further examples might be blaming others for the consequences of one’s own actions, like the current president pinning virtually all of his own failures on the last president, while taking credit for what his predecessor left behind. Or refusing to do something because you are excessively risk-averse – Joe Biden actually opposed the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound as vice-president, and as president had to be goaded even by his own party into applying sanctions on Vladimir Putin following an unprovoked invasion months in the making for all the world to see. Decision Time
So now we face the issue of who is really in charge of the Western alliance attempting to put […]
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