Is Biden’s “Success” our Mess?… 5 June 2022

    Is Biden's "Success" Our mess?

   Victor Davis Hanson / May 20, 2022

      If an administration deliberately wished to cause havoc on the
  border, to ensure fuel was nearly unaffordable, to create a crime
  wave, to spark 1970s hyperinflation, and to rekindle racial tensions
  what would it have done differently than what President Joe Biden
  has done?
      So is Biden malicious, incompetent, or a wannabe left-wing
  ideologue?
      When pressed about inflation and fuel price hikes, Biden either
  blames someone or something else, gets mad at the questioner, or
  claims former President Donald Trump did it.
      His administration apparently believes things are going well
  and according to plan.
      When polls disagree, his team either believes the American peo-
  ple are brainwashed or that they themselves have not supplied suf-
  ficient propaganda. So they never pivot or compromise, but rededi-
  cate themselves to continued failure.
      Why? Apparently, what most in the country see as disasters,
  Biden envisions as success.
      Take the border—or rather its disappearance.
      Never in U.S. history has an administration simply canceled im-
  migration laws, opened the border, and welcomed in millions of il-
  legal aliens. All arrive illegally, and without audit, or vaccina-
  tions and tests in times of a pandemic.
      Cartels now import lethal drugs at will into the United States.
  We have no idea how many terrorists walk across the border each day.
      Almost all the entering millions who break the law are poor,
  without high school diplomas or English skills, and in dire need of
  massive federal and state housing, food, education, legal, and
  health subsidies.
      Do the leftists in Washington believe that millions of dependent
  new residents will look to the left for decades of support and soon
  find ways to reciprocate with fealty at the polls? Is that why Demo-
  crats brag in unapologetic tribalist fashion about changing the de-
  mography of the electorate?
      Former President Barack Obama’s energy secretary-designate
  Steven Chu once gaffed in the 2008 campaign when he openly wished
  that U.S. gas prices would reach European levels.
      In truth, the left has always believed the only way to achieve
  its objectives of discouraging driving, forcing middle-class Ameri-
  cans onto trains and buses, and persuading them to live in urban
  high-rises rather than drive carbon-spewing cars from spacious sub-
  urban ranch-style homes was to encourage high fuel prices.
      Is that agenda why Biden, during the current energy crisis,
  simply canceled new federal oil and gas leases? As diesel hits $7 a
  gallon in California, why else did he refuse to finish the Keystone
  XL pipeline or reopen Alaskan oil fields?
      Inflation continues officially to exceed 8% per annum. Most
  consumers feel it is double that when they pay for food, fuel,
  building materials, houses, or rent—the essential stuff of life.
      What did the Biden administration expect would follow from keep-
  ing real interest rates at near zero, while printing trillions of
  dollars at the moment supplies were short and demand was spiking?
      Or did it think inflation more fairly “spreads the wealth”? Does
  it prompt new necessary attacks on “corporate greed”? Does it demand
  more federal intervention and socialist policies?
      If inflation is “bad” for most, it may not seem so to this left-
  wing administration.
      Violent crime is on its way to 1970s levels. The combination of
  defunding the police, radical city and county prosecutors who don’t
  charge or lock up criminals, and emptying jails and prisons have
  ignited a national crime wave.
      The Biden administration shrugs. It offers no new federal help
  to fund more police or charge freed criminals under applicable fed-
  eral statutes.
      Does it think it is more socially just to let criminals free
  than incarcerate them?
      Does it buy into “critical legal theory” that laws do not re-
  flect ancient ideas of right and wrong, but instead are “construct-
  ted" by the privileged to oppress the already oppressed?
      Is what Americans see as dangerous crime something the Biden
  zealots applaud as tough social karma?
      Americans are tired of the new woke tribalism. Judging indi-
  viduals on the basis of their race, gender, or superficial appear-
  ance is amoral, and contrary to the entire civil rights movement, 
  and the U.S. Constitution.
      It destroys any idea of meritocracy and divides the country
  artificially into supposed victims and victimizers.
      But do the Biden people see it that way?
      Or do they promote racial tensions and tribalism, as welcome
  revolutionary fervor?
      In that regard, the Bidenites promote identity politics as a
  good way to stir up the pot, to demonize supposed oppressors and
  deify the oppressed—all as a way of retaining political power. For
  the left, living in a socialist nation controlled by an elite is far
  preferable to living in a free and prosperous one answerable only
  to the people.
      The public believes the Biden administration has failed America,
  with disastrous results due either to its incompetence, belliger-
  ence, or left-wing zealotry.
      But Biden and his delusional team seem delighted with what they
  have wrought.

      In sum, what Americans see as an abject catastrophe, they cheer
  on as a stunning and planned success.
      Thank you, Victor
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      SO, my hope is that Americans will learn from our previous dis-
  asterous experiences with liberal attempts to destroy our economy
  and use that to rebuild what Trump started and with God's grace
  we WILL Make America Great Again.

  Conservatively,
  John