| By granting clemency to his son, the President put his family above the American people.  Photograph by Evan Vucci / Pool / AP In pardoning his son Hunter, Joe Biden “has once again forced Americans to ask whether he is acting in the national interest, or in response to private whims and grievances,” Isaac Chotiner writes. And the effects of his choice could very well outlast this moment in history. “Biden’s decision allows Republicans to engage in the same cynicism about the system being rigged and corrupt, and Trump being no different than any other politician, that they have engaged in for nearly a decade,” Chotiner adds. “This couldn’t be further from the truth—especially the part about Trump’s corruption and self-dealing being no different from the norm—but Biden is doing the work of people who want to wreck the best aspects of America’s democratic ethos.” | 
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