No, Pardoning Your Son is Not “Understandable”
We ask more of presidents. Not less.
The Democrat talking point for Joe Biden’s pardon of Hunter Biden is that it’s understandable: an ‘act of love’ from a father to his son. And some Republicans have even picked up that talking point and carried it along.
Who among us wouldn’t do likewise, they ask.
Set aside for a moment that a father using his troubled son as a front man for a foreign influence operation is no act of love, and that by pardoning Hunter, Joe Biden is also covering his own ass.
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We should expect more from our leaders, not less.
Yes, it’s human nature to protect your own kin. Leaders are asked to rise above that. It’s an actual expectation we used to have of presidents that they keep their pants on, that they not actively steal, peddle influence or engage in nepotism. And there was even a time within living memory where most Americans expected this.
And then the Kennedy family came along. And the Clintons. And the rest is history.
We’ve been told for generations now that we shouldn’t expect any better than this. We certainly shouldn’t expect leaders who are better than us. Or who are capable of passing the marshmallow test and resisting temptation.
All of that is deeply wrong. It’s how societies fall apart.
We should expect more of our leaders not less. A president abusing his power to protect his son is not ‘understandable’, it’s criminal. The fact that some Americans have lost sight of this is part of the problem.
Presidents are given extraordinary powers which means that they also need to rise to that occasion.
Understandable is fine for Hunter who went from smoking crack to smoking more crack. It’s not fine for his father who, even if he wasn’t a corrupt scumbag, has a responsibility to uphold an office which asks him to think of something more than himself and his family. Presidents are tasked with sending men out to die. They’re surrounded by men willing to die for them. If they can’t even rise to be worthy of that level of sacrifice, they have no business holding office.
Article posted with permission from Daniel Greenfield
