Biden's trip to France proved two big things: He's no Ronald Reagan, and he forgot to pack his patriotism. Along the way, he also managed to cheapen historic heroes by trying to score partisan political points with attacks on Donald Trump and House Republicans.
Their second was to so closely echo Reagan's description of the Army rangers who climbed the cliffs of Omaha and Utah beaches in the face of withering German fire that Biden is being accused on social media of plagiarism. Reagan saluted the 'boys of Pointe du Hoc,' some of whom sat before him with tears in their eyes.
An actual similarity both presidents faced are the global circumstances. Reagan was trying to hold a fractured alliance together in the face of the Soviet Union's occupation of much of Europe, while Biden struggles to hold NATO together to counter Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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