Karen J. Greenberg is the Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law. She is the author of 'The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days' (2010). She is also the co-editor of 'The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib' (2005).
Imagine my surprise when, nearly eight months ago, commenting on the state of the country as it approached the 2024 presidential election, New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg noted that “Biden has set himself the task of trying to jolt the country out of its learned helplessness in the face of Trump’s exhausting provocations.
Two days after the debate, for instance, The Economist, focusing on Biden’s refusal to declare himself a non-candidate for the presidency, concluded that “many have fallen into learned helplessness,” as evidenced by the gap between their private doubts and their public assertions.
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