Looks like others have the same fear...

 

A few days ago I put up a blog post titled "Biden quitting the race? That could be very risky for all of us".  In it, I postulated that President Biden, freed from any restraint connected to his re-election, could go "scorched earth" on his policies, using executive orders and other measures to ram through actions and decisions that might impact the whole country very negatively.  After all, he'd have nothing left to lose.

It looks like the New York Post has similar fears.

In an irony that would seem absurd in any election cycle but this one, Joe Biden is now liberated to do exactly what he wants without fear of reprisal for the first time in what has been a half-century political career full of triangulation and calculation.

He can even embrace the “Dark Brandon” persona his online fans have yearned for in recent years.

In short, there’s a realistic chance that if the president doesn’t step down and isn’t driven out — via a 25th Amendment scenario as Republicans from JD Vance on down would like — it’s entirely possible his term’s last few months could include some of the most radical moves any chief executive would make.

There’s no one left to cater to. So Biden, who presented himself as something of a caretaker president in the 2020 cycle, can assume his final form as an executive order-wielding change agent as he runs out the clock on his political career.

. . .

Could he increase American involvement in Ukraine? Could he impose more conditions on aid to Israel amid its struggles with Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran?

What’s stopping him is the real question.

And of course there is the case of Hunter Biden, a key White House adviser of late who was recently convicted of three felonies in a federal gun trial.

Republicans aren’t the only ones who can talk about “lawfare,” and Biden — despite pledging he wouldn’t pardon his son — has nothing to stop him from breaking that vow.

There's more at the link.

I'll be watching developments very carefully.  I think there might be all sorts of mischief coming out of the White House over the next few months - not least because the mainstream media are going to be focusing on the election campaign, and paying less attention to the "old guard" (something the Biden administration might be relying upon).

Peter