Predictably, after Joe Biden announced he was ending his 2024 campaign, he was lauded by a gaggle of useful idiots as the greatest of presidents and a great statesman who fell on his own sword to “save democracy.”

Naturally, his sidekick, Kamala Harris, led the pack: “In one term, he has already surpassed the legacy of most presidents who served two terms in office.” Well, if she means his long legacy of domestic and foreign policy failures, she is right.

The Biden/Harris regime certainly did not want to run on their disastrous domestic and foreign policy failures compared with Trump’s exceptional domestic and foreign policy record, both an indicator of what the next four years will look like.

Biden’s spokesparrot, Karine Jean-Pierre, got the memo: “President Biden will go down in history as one of our greatest Presidents. Accomplishing more in 4 years than many accomplished in 8 years. He is also an honorable man. A decent man. And a person who has always put the country first.” Of course, that is patently false on all accounts.

But the most blatantly bogus accolades were from those Biden sycophants who actually compared him to George Washington:

“Joe Biden is precisely the kind of leader George Washington would have hoped for [and] honors George Washington’s example.” —Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

“[Like] George Washington…I didn’t have any doubt that Joe would make the patriotic call for the country.” —Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)

“Like our first president…Biden’s decision to step aside from his reelection run will cement his legacy among some of the greatest statesmen in our country’s history.” —Sen. Angus King (I-ME)

“[Biden’s] selfless act this weekend reminds me of what George Washington did when he voluntarily gave up reelection and put country first.” —Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA)

“[Washington’s legacy] can be President Biden’s legacy as well.” —Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA)

And from his Leftmedia publicists:

“Joe Biden joins George Washington as America’s second Cincinnatus.” —The Hill’s Rebecca Brannon

“He gets to go out as the George Washington of his party.” —NPR’s Mara Liasson

“He will be remembered as a great president. He will be mentioned in the same sentence as George Washington.” —NBC’s Jonathan Alter

Political analyst Jeff Jacoby rebutted the nonsensical comparisons: “In almost every important way, Washington’s decision was the opposite of Biden’s. Most Americans did not want Biden to run again and did not think he could handle the job. For almost the entirety of his presidency, Biden’s approval rating has been underwater. … Give Biden credit for bowing to the inevitable. But the man is no George Washington.”

More to the point, Gov. Ron DeSantis observed: “This notion that the media is trying to peddle that [Biden] is like George Washington refusing power for the good of the country — he had no choice! They were knifing him in the back!”

I get the mindless comparisons from Demo Party yappers and their Leftmedia talkingheads and scribes.

But the Washington comparison that most warranted a reality check was from “presidential historian” Jon Meacham. Jon delivered an outstanding eulogy at George H. W. Bush’s funeral six years ago, but he is now apparently chronically disabled with Trump Derangement Syndrome, if not afflicted with Biden-level dementia.

According to Meacham, “[Biden’s] decision is one of the most remarkable acts of leadership in our history, an act of self-sacrifice that places him in the company of George Washington.”

It is hard to fathom how deep in a dark Demo echo-chamber hole of “useful idiots” Meacham has sunk to proffer such a fallacious comparison on the record, now becoming the laughingstock of any serious presidential historian. Even those high-brow intellectuals who declare themselves “ABT” (anybody but Trump) respond with eye-rolls when hearing about Meacham’s comparison.

In fact, as Meacham undoubtedly once knew, there is a far more accurate Biden comparison.

The withdrawal of Biden from his reelection campaign actually closely mirrors that of Texas Demo Lyndon Johnson in 1968. The two deeply unpopular presidents both presided over disastrous domestic and foreign policies and withdrew their candidacies.

LBJ became the president on November 22, 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and finished the remaining two years of Kennedy’s first term. To say the Kennedys did not get along with Johnson is an understatement.

In his first election for president, Johnson selected Demo Senate Majority Whip Hubert Humphrey from Minnesota as his VP, passing on the most popular VP choice, Robert F. Kennedy. Johnson won that election against Barry Goldwater, taking office again in January of 1965. He then presided over the implementation of his so-called “Great Society” programs, which instituted systemic poverty and ultimately enslaved tens of millions of poor mostly black people on the Democrat Party’s urban poverty plantations.

He also presided over the acceleration of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War and other foreign policy failures.

Given that his public support was rapidly diminishing — similar to Biden, his approval rating was stalled at just 36% — Johnson withdrew from his reelection campaign, saying simply, “I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.”

At least LBJ had enough respect for his constituents to withdraw his name before the primaries.

I suspect Biden’s Demo handlers decided he must stay in until after the primaries but withdraw before the DNC convention, which was calculated to avoid contested primary and convention battles, creating division within the party. But the net effect of that charade was that “President Democracy” nullified 14 million primary votes and duped all his dullard constituents.

LBJ rallied his party bosses and unions to throw their support to Humphrey, who was then defeated by Richard Nixon. Notably, Nixon would win reelection by a historic landslide in 1972, eclipsing even that of Ronald Reagan’s landslide reelection in 1984. Nixon would end our involvement in Vietnam, before resigning office over the involvement of his White House staff in the Watergate break-in of the DNC headquarters, a black-bag job that paled in comparison to the Demos’ deep state coup conspiracy against Donald Trump.

Notably, given all the faux Demo focus on “voter suppression” while they are busy rigging national elections with their bulk-mail ballot fraud strategy, of his Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, Johnson said, “I’ll have those ni**ers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.”

Of the previous Civil Rights Act, LBJ told Sen. Richard Russell (D-GA): “These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.” And in a recorded Oval Office conversation on why he could not make a racial voter discrimination case in Texas, he declared, “There’s more ni**ers voting there than white folks.”

Both Johnson and Biden, as leaders of the racist Democrat Party, have stellar records of subjugating black folks.

Oh, and one more comparison between LBJ and JRB: They both withdrew their candidacy ahead of Demo conventions in Chicago — the last one besieged with violent protests.

With rising anti-Semite student protests against Biden’s policies regarding Israel, this year’s DNC convention in Chicago may also mirror some of those 1968 optics of protestors battling police.

Finally, a warning from George Washington in his Farewell Address regarding political parties and corrupt politicians: “They are likely … to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government…”

And that, Jon Meacham, precisely describes Joe Biden.

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