Joe Biden has been President for six months now. He celebrated that occasion by coming to our fair community and holding a town hall at Mount St. Joseph University in Delhi Township in our congressional district last week. Holding it there was controversial, because Mount St. Joseph (fairly obvious by its name) is a Catholic institution, and Biden is stridently pro-abortion (which is not just frowned upon, but condemned by Catholic dogma.)
He got mostly softball questions from an overwhelmingly Democrat audience. And the moderator of the show (and I don’t say “show” inadvertently) couldn’t have been more obviously pro-Biden than if they’d allowed Joe’s wife, Jill Biden (oops, I mean DOCTOR Biden) to moderate the show herself.
Okay, so how is Biden doing in the first six months of his presidency? Well, his popularity, in the low 50s, isn’t bad, but that’s principally because the coverage he gets from the mainstream media is nearly as friendly as it was during the campaign last year. Let’s face it, the mainstream press is on the Biden team – they wanted him to win, they agree with his policies, they want him to be reelected, and their coverage of him reflects it.
I believe a more accurate way of determining just how he’s doing, is to take a look at how his policies are (or are not) working. And that’s what I am going to do now.
First, one of his earliest decisions was to totally reverse President Trump’s policies at our southern border. Biden stopped construction on the wall, reversed the stay-in-Mexico-while-you’re-seeking-asylum policy, and instead re-instituted catch-and-release, and pretty much sent the message far and wide that THE BORDER IS NOW OPEN. The results have been disastrous – over 1 million people have entered illegally at our southern border, and there’s no evidence that this surge of illegal immigration is slowing (in my view, just what Biden and the leftists wanted.) Biden‘s policies at our southern border have been tragic (unless, of course, you’re just trying to flood the country with a bunch of people who are likely to vote overwhelmingly Democrat.)
Next, the economy. Biden is doing his best to screw it up royally. That’s obviously not his goal, but it’s the result of his terribly flawed policies. Shutting down the Keystone Pipeline, thus undermining our energy independence. Paying people not to work, thus making it harder for businesses to bounce back from the COVID shutdown. Undermining welfare-to-work requirements, thus keeping more people permanently reliant upon the government. And trying to raise taxes, which would be like laying a wet blanket over the economy.
Crime. The Democrats’ “defund the police” campaign, accompanied by the effort to eliminate qualified immunity, Is resulting in a crime wave in cities all across America. In Cincinnati, for example, the homicide rate has risen to an all-time high.
And Biden‘s foreign policy is only making things worse. Biden met with Russia’s Putin, and gave him a list of 16 parts of our economy not to hit with malware (the implication, of course, being it was open season on everything else. Russian cyber attackers hit us again, with impunity.
China apparently thinks they’ve got Biden under control because they’ve got his son Hunter on the payroll, literally. They continue to steal our intellectual property (and jobs), persecute the Uyghurs (and anyone else they want to), build up their military, and Biden does nothing, apparently because he wants progress on climate change so much, that he’s willing to give up just about anything else for it.
And Afghanistan is about to be overrun by the Taliban. It may not look exactly like the helicopter-on-the-embassy-roof in Saigon, but I’m afraid that’s what Biden’s cut-and-run policy in Afghanistan is soon going to look like.
In other words, Biden‘s first six months as president have been, well, they’ve been a disaster. The mainstream press won’t tell you. But I will.
See you next week.