The state of Joe Biden’s United States
By Brooke Rollins in The Washington Times
President Biden delivered his first State of the Union address
this week, and its theatrics proved a testament to his disastrous
first year in office. Frightened by the twin specters of continued
protests against draconian COVID-19 mandates and general American
disapproval, his administration caused the United States Capitol to
be ringed with new fencing — and they’ve put the National Guard on
alert. Perhaps nothing synopsizes the capsizing vessel that is the
Biden White House than this: They’re building a fortress around the
seat of the American people’s government but refuse to protect our
nation’s southern border.
The sense of dread felt by the president’s apparatus is justified
because Americans deeply dislike the president. A pair of new polls
tell the tale.
One of them, from NBC/PBS NewsHour/Marist, puts the president at
a mere 39% approval. That approval number is smaller than the lone
strong-disapproval cohort, which sits at 41% — with 55% disapproving
at large. All the subject-matter indicators are similarly bad. Only
36% approve of Mr. Biden’s economic record. A stunning 67%, more than
two-thirds of Americans, believe the country is going in the wrong
direction.
Among Americans at large, 56% consider his first year in office
to be a failure. That last numbers gets more interesting when you
break it down: Mr. Biden’s first year is a failure according to 61%
of whites, 28% of Blacks and 56% of Hispanics. Every single age and
area cohort puts up a majority believing he’s failed.
We should pause here to reflect on what these figures mean. Sent-
iment figures are not predictive of election or candidate-preference
outcomes, but they are suggestive. What these numbers suggest, espec-
ially as the president is the de facto stand-in for national Demo-
crats, is that Democrats won’t win nationally again for a generation.
This may seem like hyperbole, but the numbers alone bear it on the
race/ethnicity figures. A Democratic candidate who loses more than a
quarter of the black vote, and a majority of the Hispanic vote, isn’t
going anywhere. A Democratic candidate who squanders the usual Demo-
cratic advantage among young voters isn’t going anywhere.
An alert observer might note that this is consistent with the
unfolding reorientation of the Democratic coalition toward a mostly
white, mostly college-educated core demographic. That’s probably ac-
curate. But that even among them, Biden’s year-one failure is stark:
He loses a majority of men and musters only a plurality among women.
This is a coalition in collapse.
The other poll, from WaPo/ABC, offers even worse news in its
approval rating for the president. It sits at a historic low of 37%.
A figure this low in the era of modern polling usually represents
the nadir of a president’s fortunes. It also usually requires some-
thing catastrophic to have occurred that imparts upon the Nation a
sense of humiliation. That’s why, according to Gallup’s numbers,
President Lyndon B. Johnson got into this territory after Tet, and
President Ronald Reagan got into it after the Beirut massacre. Mr.
Biden has his own foreign-policy disasters to answer for — chief
among them the American defeat in Afghanistan and the failure to
prevent the Russian war upon Ukraine — but that is hardly the whole
bill of indictment against him.
This second poll also illuminates the first’s picture of a col-
lapsing Democratic coalition with sentiment numbers speaking directly
to their likely electoral consequences. With midterm elections ra-
pidly approaching, Americans prefer Republican control of Congress by
a bare majority. They intend to vote for a Republican Congressional
candidate by a seven-point plurality. They give the Republicans just
shy of a 20-point advantage in efficacy on the economy.
What does all this mean? A presidential-approval rating isn’t a
baseball score. It signifies something consequential — not just about
the state of the president, but about the state of America. Just over
a year after Mr. Biden took office, the country he helms is suffering
thanks to his leadership or absence thereof. We have endured defeat
abroad, war in Europe, economic insecurity, a historical border
crisis, generational inflation and more. The kicker to it is he’s
just getting started: This is only year one, and this administration
will last through to January 2025.
The good news, though, is that, if the State of the Union is
tested and divided, then the state of America is strong — because
unlike their fenced-in and heavily guarded elites in Washington,
Americans are strong. It’s easy to look at our leadership and feel
despair, but that would be a mistake. All we need to do is look to
one another to feel hope. This country isn’t done yet. The greatest
legacy of the failed administration of Jimmy Carter is it ushered in
the freedom, hope and prosperity of Reagan. Similarly, I am confident
Mr. Biden will usher in the return of America First!
By Brooke Rollins, The Washington Times
I found this on my computer and it needs a few facts with it.
It is now late April 2022 and we are still rolling downhill and
we seem to be picking up speed. Inflation has passed 10%, Gas prices
have reached beyond $4.40 a gallon. It fell back a little when old
Joe started drawing out of our limited reserves. He is now buying our
oil from Russia while the Fed went back to buying securities that the
smart investors sold off in an effort to hold the stock market from
collapsing.
People are hurting and Joe doesn't seem to care.
And then there is the war in Ukraine that Joe refuses help, as
thousands of innocent Ukrainians have been slaughtered. Putin is just
blowing anything from schools to entire housing complexes.
Biden is incapable of acting on his own or re-act until a crisis
has reached the point of "Why bother?"
It is time to ask God to save us because our so-called leaders
lack empathy, morals, ethics and unable to tell the truth. They just
continue to throw money at everything.
Lord, please heal our land.
Conservatively,
John
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