You read the NBC News piece about Joe Biden’s increasing agitation over why Americans don’t want him for another four years. He’s angry about how the Israel-Hamas War is costing him votes with young Americans and Muslims across the Rust Belt. Labor union workers are souring on him, with United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain admitting that a large portion of his rank-and-file will not support Joe Biden. Blacks and Hispanics, two voter blocs that Democrats cannot afford to have lukewarm support, are drifting away. In less than four years, Biden has wrecked the political Maserati, the Obama coalition. And yet, the underlying theme of the article is that he thinks he’s doing a spectacular job as our commander-in-chief.
That’s the worst part about Biden’s dementia: this Candyland-like dream that he’s part of the class of great presidents when, in fact, he’s just lucky. His entire career has been about hitting above his weight class—getting elected from a deep blue state isn’t a political accomplishment. I will heavily bet that without COVID, Trump would handily win a second term, which would have spared Biden’s high inflation, open border, crime-ridden nightmare we’re stuck in right now.
Sixty-one percent of those polled by Gallup feel Biden doesn’t deserve another stint in the White House, while 86 percent of those surveyed by Washington Post/ABC News feel he’s too old. These are tough numbers to grind down into something manageable. Even more maddening is Biden’s staff’s script in trying to cast Trump as unpopular. That only works if you are popular, and Joe Biden is decidedly not.
Is Trump a weak candidate? You can’t gauge him like a Mitt Romney or a John McCain. Trump might not be as popular as the polling suggests, but that doesn’t matter: his coalition is probably one of the most efficiently distributed in the country. David Shor, a liberal data scientist, warned Democrats that Trump could win with 44 percent approval ratings because of this. He also said that Democrats should steer clear of immigration a la doubling down on amnesty and pathways to citizenship and focus on health care. The party opted to do the former, which has led to an open border and illegal alien crime crisis that’s become a national story.
New York City, Chicago, and other blue cities are awash with illegals. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s district looks like a shantytown. The murders of University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley and others have made illegal immigration a top issue for voters. Democrats coldly dismiss these stories, noting that American citizens also commit crimes. Yes, and that’s equally appalling, but illegal alien murders are avoidable because these people shouldn’t be here. The crime situation is already bad enough—Democrats think compounding it with hordes of bad hombres south of the Rio Grande is a political winner.
Biden chooses to do nothing. When he referred to Jose Ibarra, who killed Laken Riley, as an “illegal” during the State of the Union, the left was angrier about him using that phrase than the crime itself.
Like his mental health, Biden is decrepit, weak, and anything but a solid candidate. Both candidates are eminently beatable, so this will come down to a base election. Biden has issues on that front; Trump does not. Yes, there’s a ton of time before Election Day, and we’re in for one of the most extended general election campaigns in recent memory since the camps were already decided before St. Patrick’s Day.
Can Biden turn things around? If inflation keeps torching Americans’ wallets, no. Most of his State of the Union was based on yelling, ranting, and touting achievements that were the definition of “mid,” but he needed to gin up the base, hence the inclusion of Obamacare. Democrats love that bill, but it’s also not a Biden achievement. There’s nothing Biden can cite and say, “Look at this comprehensible and popular domestic program.” All Americans see is an old man spouting sentence fragments about an omnibus package that blew up the inflation rate.
You can say a lot about Obama, but he did big things for the country. They were also all the wrong things, but he gave the American people more than enough time to think them over, primarily Obamacare, and they re-elected him.
Republicans had their shot at reversing Obamacare with zero consequences in 2012 and failed. After 2013, with millions enrolled in the new health care law, the narrative that the GOP can never outmaneuver reached a point of no return: that of “taking people’s stuff away” vis-à-vis Obamacare rollback pushes.
The fact that Biden has leaned on his boss’ former days shows he’s got nothing, so perhaps the anger is that he has nothing to show Americans after four years. All he has is a struggling economy, a 15-million jobs figure that can easily be debunked—every jobs report under this president has been revised down—and a world in total chaos due to his ineptitude at handling foreign affairs.
Joe may think he’s the valedictorian of the presidential class, but he's just a D+ student who got lucky because a pandemic hit. Worthless, dumb, and oozing with self-importance, Biden is only good at greasing the wheels of his family’s corrupt government access schemes with his crack-smoking son, Hunter.
All hail, King Nothing of Delaware.