American history is full of presidential offspring with issues, writes Alexis Coe, but they’ve never been grist for a presidential election the way Hunter Biden has. She argues that the targeting of the juinior Biden shows that in modern America, the Republican Party appears to believe in an eye for an eye, but if that comes up short, an eye for an heir will do just fine.
Presidential history is lousy with ne’er-do-well sons. John Quincy Adams was the earliest exception and the widely-admired Beau Biden the most recent, but for much of America’s nearly 250-year history, First Sons have been embarrassing their fathers—but until now, virtually none of them were considered grist to sway a presidential election.
“I pitty our Good Brother Madison,” John Adams wrote to Thomas Jefferson in 1817. “You have tried your game of robbery long enough,” Mary, Abraham Lincoln’s widow, wrote to Robert, their only surviving son, after a year-long campaign to free herself from the asylum he’d damned her to. Robert, who wanted to be seen as Lincoln’s heir apparent, was determined to be the center of attention at the 10-year anniversary of his father’s assassination.
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