It’s appropriate that on Thursday night, Rahm Emanuel was not sitting in a position of elected office, but rather in ABC’s Democratic debate spin room. Following a career as mayor of Chicago in which he disdained his constituents and avoided them as much as possible while slashing public services and selling the city off to his corporate patrons, Emanuel appears comfortable in his new life as a pundit.

Emanuel was forced into an early retirement, so he no longer has to face much scrutiny for his anti-democratic governance, nor his alleged cover-up of the police murder of African-American teenager Laquan McDonald, nor his neoliberal policies of gutting social programs to benefit the repugnantly wealthy. His crimes were too many to get elected to a third term in Chicago, so instead, on Tuesday night, he played his new role of Serious Pundit, adopted after inking his lucrative deals as correspondent for ABC News and contributing editor at the Atlantic.

So what sterling commentary did Rahm hand out? Following the debate, he took the mic to declare: “I think Vice President Joe Biden came in and showed energy.”