Today’s must-read: “Pride goes before ruin; arrogance, before failure.”
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Too many leaders “care more about holding on [to power] than about what is best for their constituents,” Erica Brown writes.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is 71; he’s been in that office for the last 12 years, and will leave a historical wreckage as his legacy. He’s not going anywhere of his own volition. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite vociferous protests, is hanging on by a thread to an office he has occupied for 15 nonconsecutive years. He is 74. Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, is 88, and has been in that position for 19 years.
And here in the United States, President Joe Biden is 81 and running for reelection, despite a questionable performance in Thursday’s presidential debate. The Democratic Party, it seems, would rather save face than save the country. The Republicans haven’t put forward a new candidate, so we are subject once again to former President Donald Trump’s populist tirades and legal battles. He’s only 78.
Too many leaders stay in office long beyond their sell-by date.
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