EDITOR'S NOTE: This editorial was published on Saturday July 21, a day before President Joe Biden announced he would not seek reelection .
Democrats trying to convince Joe Biden to quit the presidential race are using flattery to make him acquiesce. They’re thanking him for saving the country from his predecessor, Donald Trump , telling him he’s been one of the best presidents ever, and then suggesting he step aside to preserve his legacy.
Leaving aside whether or not the country needed saving from Trump, Biden has not “done an excellent job as president,” as claimed by the sweetly generous New York Times. If he is “one of the most consequential presidents in our nation's history,” as the dulcet-tongued Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said when he asked Biden to step aside, those consequences have been overwhelmingly negative.
Biden could have been remembered as a president who united the country and passed the baton to a new generation of leadership. To do this, he needed to govern as a commonsense centrist and then stick to his word and pass the baton. The economy was already adding 1.4 million jobs a month before Biden was sworn into office. If he had simply speeded the reopening of the economy after the COVID shutdowns, he would have presided over strong, equitable economic growth.
Instead, he allowed fawning historians to convince him he could be the second coming of Franklin Roosevelt. Manipulated by the Left, he pushed for massive and unneeded spending on a purely partisan basis, sending inflation through the roof and thus punishing vulnerable workers . As a direct result of Biden’s partisan overspending, consumers have accumulated $12.8 trillion in housing debt, $1.62 trillion in car debt, and $1.1 trillion in credit card debt, all record highs. According to the latest Federal Reserve Economic Well-Being survey , inflation has worsened the finances of 65% of people, including 19% who said it was “much worse.” Almost one-fifth of adults, 17%, said they could not pay all their bills in the month before the survey was taken.
No wonder voters disapprove of Biden's handling of the economy by 20 points.
Biden was also handed a secure border where fewer than 2,500 immigrants were being encountered daily. A month after he dismantled Trump’s successful "Remain in Mexico" program, Biden’s catch-and-release border policies sent border apprehensions up to over 3,500. Biden claimed this was just a “seasonal” fluctuation that “happens every single solitary year.” But then the numbers hit 5,775 a day in March and steadily rose to an all-time high of 9,741 encounters a day last December.
As a direct result of the border crisis Biden created, local governments across the country are having to cut services for native-born Americans and fire employees to help pay for the food, housing, healthcare, and education for Biden's illegal immigrants. Young women have been raped and murdered by migrants Biden let into the country. Most of the 3.8 million illegal immigrants are not violent criminals, but if even 1% of them are, that’s 38,000 menaces to society roaming free today who would not have been in the country if Trump were still president.
Biden has also created weakness and instability abroad. He has done nothing but appease the terrorist regime in Iran, encouraging proxy attacks on American forces throughout the region . With oil dollars flowing again thanks to Biden's weakening of sanctions enforcement, Iranian money flowed to the Houthi rebels, who now threaten international shipping, and to Hamas, who has inflicted great harm on Israel, including the kidnapping of American hostages whom Biden does not seem to care about .
It is hard to see how Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, a politically rushed maneuver that got 13 American service members killed, did not encourage Russian aggression. And while Biden has done some good in managing NATO’s response to the invasion of Ukraine, he has been slow and indecisive in getting Ukraine the weapons it needs to push invading Russian troops out.
Then there are the divisive actions Biden has taken on forcing women’s dorms and bathrooms to take in men , forcing consumers to buy electric cars , and selectively prosecuting his political opponents .
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There is a reason — indeed many reasons — that Biden has the lowest approval rating among presidents at this point in his presidency : He is a bad president. No amount of flattery from the New York Times or Democrats eager to push him out of his reelection campaign is going to change that.
Biden must go not because his legacy is splendid but because he has been an unmitigated calamity for America.
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