28 June 2024, 11:54

By Connor Hand

President Joe Biden suffers from what I’m going to call the ‘Reverse Warren Harding Effect’.

President Warren Harding is, without doubt, regarded as one of the worst-ever occupants of the Oval Office. The golf-obsessed, scandal-scarred president - sound familiar? - has very little by way of a positive legacy.

Those who slurped the Harding kool-aid were left feeling parched by the time of his death two years later, his administration paralyzed by impropriety.

Perhaps the most puzzling thing about Harding, though, is the enthusiasm with which he was initially embraced by the American people. Harding was elected as the President of the United States in 1920, comprehensively defeating Democrat James Cox with what was, at the time, the biggest share of the popular vote ever, despite possessing a dearth of experience and, bluntly, intellectual........

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