Are the Democrats headed for their Little Bighorn, with President Joe Biden as Col. Custer? The wish, you suggest, is father to the thought. Yet, consider.
On taking office, Biden held a winning hand.
Three vaccines, with excellent efficacy rates, had been created and were being administered at a rate of a million shots a day. The pandemic was at its peak but looking certain to turn down, and it did.
This welcome news lifted national spirits, and the economy with it.
And the new president was taking office in a brief era of good feelings produced by the departure of the party and president who had given us the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Thus did Biden begin his administration with his approval at a level his predecessor never reached in any year of his presidency.
Happy days were here again.
But now the storm clouds are gathering and rumbling.
By last week, Biden’s disapproval rating had risen into the 40s, and half the country believed America was “on the wrong track.”
Yet it is not what has happened but what impends that appears ominous for Biden’s and his party’s prospects.
With not quite 70% of U.S. adults having received a vaccination, a new and more contagious delta variant of the disease is spreading worldwide, and an uptick in new U.S. infections has been reported.
In the economy, with markets at an all-time high, an old demon has reappeared. Writes today’s Wall Street Journal:
“Americans should brace themselves for several years of higher inflation than they’ve seen in decades, according to economists who expect the robust post-pandemic economic recovery to fuel brisk price increases …
“If the economists prove correct, Federal Reserve officials might have to raise (interest) rates sooner or more than they expect to keep inflation under control.”
Inflation and rising interest rates to combat it is usually a near-fatal cocktail for a party in control of the White House and Congress in the year they face the electorate.
In addition to warning lights flashing in the economy, Biden has presided over a sudden crisis along the southern border, where 170,000 illegal migrants are being apprehended every month.
“Getaways” — border-crossers who sneak in and evade contact with the Border Patrol — now number 30,000 a month.
Who these people are and whence they came, we know not.
Former President Donald Trump’s policies secured the border, and this new invasion is traceable to Biden’s trashing of Trump’s policy.
Indeed, Biden’s designation of Vice President Kamala Harris as point person on the border crisis, and her reflexive recoil from the duties of that assignment, testify that this latest invasion could be a killer issue for Democrats in 2022.
Also, the progressives’ adamant stand that rogue cops hostile to people of color are the true police crisis in America has been rendered politically obsolete by a nationwide surge in shootings, murders and mass killings.
How potent is the issue? Eric Adams, a Black former police captain running on the issue of public safety, won the Democratic primary for mayor of New York and is headed for Gracie Mansion.
Almost without exception, the cities where the shootings and killings are occurring have been run by Democrats for decades.
The “defund the police!” chant of Black Lives Matter and its camp followers is now being drowned out by a clamor for more cops to protect the people of color who are the collateral damage and victims of the shootings.
Other stories gracing front pages and evening news reports in coming months will be the horrors coming out of Afghanistan, as the Taliban capture towns and provincial capitals and exact retribution on those Afghans who made the fatal mistake of casting their lot with the Americans.
Biden did not take us into Afghanistan, but he ordered the rapid withdrawal, and his presidency will bear the political consequences of his presiding over yet another lost American war. As JFK said, life is unfair.
If the Democratic Party goes into the election of 2022 defending Biden’s border failures, decrying rogue cops rather than addressing the shootings and killings, and explaining away inflation and rising interest rates as “not our fault,” the result would seem to be foreordained.
Then there is the matter of race.
Is it a winner for the Democrats in 2022 to be seen as the party of tearing down statues of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Lewis and Clark, of requiring that schoolchildren be indoctrinated in the tenets of “systemic racism” and “white privilege,” and learn about how their ancestors were slave-owners and their grandparents cousins or friends of Jim Crow?
As for the progressives’ agenda, the For the People Act, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act could all wind up dead on the Senate floor alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders $6 trillion plan for remaking America in the image of Norman Thomas.
All killed by filibusters bravely defended by Sen. Joe Manchin.
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.” To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators website at www.creators.com.
While I do not wish hardship upon the country, I do wish absolute failure for Biden and the Democrat Party. Biden has been on a tear to undo everything Trump did simply because Trump did it. He brought Trump Derangement Syndrome from Congress straight into the White House. Democrats in power want everything to have a Democrat stamp on it—just so long as it isn’t Republican and regardless of whether or not it is good for the country.
It reflects so badly on this country that the occupant in the White House got there via a stolen election—he couldn’t campaign nor articulate an agenda. And the ignoramuses making up his administration are equally as incompetent as he is—mental decline aside. Frankly, I think they all display some degree of mental decline—at least a severe lack of mental clarity.
If we are to get this country back on track, Biden and company must go—and the sooner, the better.
NOT just those in office, but all those in the indoctrinators dept…
“brief era of good feelings produced by the departure of the party and president who had given us the Jan. 6 Capitol riot”. A riot at the Capitol? Trump gave us January 6, 2021? What a joke! With regard to the Democrats, they are communists, so what does one expect that the end result will be.
“….the party and president who had given us the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.”
Hey! Mister! Your pant are on fire!
Former great American cites like Chicago, Detroit and others elected Democrat black mayors and soon learned to regret it. The problem is not in their blackness, but their Party. New York is next in line for the same regret that always follows, murder, theft actual or in the form of social redistribution of wealth, and uncontrolled criminals of any color. Can anyone name just one American City run by a Democrat Black mayor that is not headed for social self-destruction and violence? Joe Biden is stuck to these failing cities like Brer Rabbit was stuck to tar baby. Last in war, last in peace, and only first in the minds of media-controlled half-truth, half-empty party indoctrinated minds. His candidacy was sold to the public as Prime Rib, but when allowed to be tasted just turned out to be the rancid part of the Democrat beast that went over the fence last.
Hell, i can’t name one city RAN BY a black mayor (DEM OR NOT) that isn’t heading for self destruction.
The democrat Marxist, controlled states and cities are complete failures because they are ruled by people who believe that to controll people and their votes is the only way to power over their lives through Welfare and their vote. These democrat Marxists are perfectly willing to pay other tax payers money for not having a job and pay them extra for each child they produce while they’re receiving welfare from those who do work and pay taxes. This is a Quote that the Marxist politicians believe is the proper role of those governing, ” The art of Government consists in taking as much Money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. “
If Biden needs 25,000 armed soldiers and razor wire fences to protect his inauguration from the people. Then Biden probably wasn’t elected by the people.
This corrupt, parrot, puppet president and the Democrat controlled Congress are violating our U.S. Constitution and our Laws.
The Guarantee Clause requires the United States to guarantee to the states a republican form of government, and provide protection from foreign invasion and domestic violence.
This corrupt, parrot, puppet president and the Democrat controlled Congress are violating our U.S. Constitution and our Laws.
Article 4 of the US Constitution: The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
500,000 illegal immigrants invading our borders each month. If This isn’t a foreign invasion, then what is it?