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They generally do very little about it, which works to Trump’s benefit: He gets to look tough on TV while his opponents seem impotent.

Biden imploded and appeared to be impotent before Trump’s barrage of lies and manic energy.

The shotgun agreement, accepted by the western Allies, burdened China with yet another national humiliation after eighty years of coercion, extortion, and military defeat at the hands of foreign powers, and people blamed the impotent Beiyang government and the squabbling warlord cliques that ran much of the country for letting it happen.

“A complete lack of leadership from an impotent president.”

In the same fell swoop, Biden also made himself look more politically impotent than anything he’s done so far in the Oval — except for, of course, his attempts to pass off chintzy regulatory band-aids as some kind of valiant restoration of abortion access.