I am wondering whether Biden isn't using Trump's own rhetorical trick (possibly inadvertently), of saying the thing, then walking it back juuuuust enough for plausible deniability, but now it's out there. Carol S. gives the example of his rhetoric on Jan. 6. I don't know if it was the right thing to do, but I'm also not completely sure it was all bad.
I am wondering whether Biden isn't using Trump's own rhetorical trick (possibly inadvertently), of saying the thing, then walking it back juuuuust enough for plausible deniability, but now it's out there. Carol S. gives the example of his rhetoric on Jan. 6. I don't know if it was the right thing to do, but I'm also not completely sure it was all bad.
I think Trump's "peacefully" was probably a strategic CYA planted in the midst of what he really wanted his fans to hear.
Biden's comments was an emotional outburst after seeing up close some of the suffering that Putin is causing. I think he meant the comment as a moral desideratum, not as a statement of intent to engineer the end of Putin's power. From that perspective, he doesn't need "deniability" in the sense of pretending he didn't reveal something he should have kept quiet. It's a rather a matter of trying to persuade people that he really was not stating a policy goal.
I am wondering whether Biden isn't using Trump's own rhetorical trick (possibly inadvertently), of saying the thing, then walking it back juuuuust enough for plausible deniability, but now it's out there. Carol S. gives the example of his rhetoric on Jan. 6. I don't know if it was the right thing to do, but I'm also not completely sure it was all bad.
I think Trump's "peacefully" was probably a strategic CYA planted in the midst of what he really wanted his fans to hear.
Biden's comments was an emotional outburst after seeing up close some of the suffering that Putin is causing. I think he meant the comment as a moral desideratum, not as a statement of intent to engineer the end of Putin's power. From that perspective, he doesn't need "deniability" in the sense of pretending he didn't reveal something he should have kept quiet. It's a rather a matter of trying to persuade people that he really was not stating a policy goal.