by Victor Davis Hanson
The most recent liberal ABC News/Washington Post poll showed Joe Biden’s approval rating at 36 percent—the lowest in history for a president at this point in his first term.
Biden’s low popularity is no mystery.
He inherited energy independence, affordable gas prices, historically low interest rates, low inflation, calm overseas, a low crime rate, and a largely closed border with legal-only immigration.
And then Biden destroyed that inheritance.
He has begged illiberal foreign governments to pump oil he refuses to drill domestically.
He spiked inflation at the highest rate in over 40 years.
Home interest rates have skyrocketed from less than 3 percent to 7 percent.
He nearly doubled the price of gasoline.
His hare-brained retreat from Afghanistan marked the greatest humiliation of the American military in the last half-century.
Kabul is now selling billions of dollars’ worth of abandoned American equipment to terrorists and anti-American regimes.
After that fiasco, Biden foolhardily played down a possible “minor” Russia invasion of Ukraine. He implored Russia to exempt some American institutions from its cyber-attack target list.
No wonder an empowered Putin went into Ukraine.
Biden’s family is corrupt from top to bottom.
Its influence peddling schemes increasingly are targets of congressional investigations. Biden himself is explicitly mentioned by his son Hunter as the recipient of a 10 percent commission on monies the family syndicate leveraged from foreign interests.
Biden promised “unity.” Instead, he habitually smears half the country as “semi-fascists” and “ultra-MAGA” extremists.
Biden is cognitively challenged and often incoherent. And he is now losing support in the polls from African Americans, once his most loyal constituency.
In response, Biden does what he always had done for some 40 years: mouth wild racist demagoguery.
This graduation season, Biden deliberately chose Howard University to scare its black graduates into believing the greatest threat to their aspirations is “white supremacy”—but that he, Joe Biden, has been their protector in fighting it.
Note the existential threats Biden deliberately omits.
Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants are flooding over a border Biden deliberately destroyed. Millions of incoming poor will vie for limited federal and state support with Americans who are in need.
Since Biden was elected, there have been nearly 7 million illegal entries.
Some 100,000 Americans now die each year from Mexican-produced fentanyl and other opioids shipped across a wide-open border.
Biden did not mention that nearly 10,000 African Americans are murdered each year, over 90 percent of them killed by other African Americans.
Biden first should heal his own racism before he fabricates it in others.
He fueled his early Senate career with homages to southern Democratic segregationists such as Senator James O. Eastland (D-Miss.). Biden even bragged that Eastland “never called me ‘boy.’” Biden gave eulogies for former Dixiecrat Sen. Strom Thurmond and former Klansman Sen. Robert Byrd.
Of school busing, a younger Senator Joe Biden thundered, “My children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle.”
Biden in 2008 patronized Barack Obama in racist terms as “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
In 2012, Biden condescended to a group of accomplished black professionals that the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, would “put y’all back in chains.”
As a presidential candidate in 2020, he dismissed two black journalists, respectively with the putdowns “you ain’t black” and “junkie.”
His fabricated “Corn Pop” he-man autobiographical tales are utterly racist.
As president he has referred to two prominent people of color as “boy.” He still uses the term “Negro” to refer to blacks.
Biden never cites data to support his wild accusations that white supremacy poses the nation’s greatest threat.
The 2020 riots, the lengthiest in our history, left up to 40 people dead, destroyed $2 billion in property, led to 14,000 arrests, spanned 120 days of mass looting, and arson, and saw mobs torching police precincts, federal courthouses, and an historic church.
That violence was engineered by radicals in Antifa and Black Lives Matter.
In the January 6 Captiol protests, the only person confirmed to have been killed at that event was an unarmed military veteran and Trump supporter, Ashli Babbitt. She was lethally shot by a Capitol police officer for the misdemeanor of attempting to enter through a broken window.
If “white supremacy” was our “greatest” terrorist threat, surely crime statistics would reveal such an existential peril.
Yet federal hate- and interracial-crime data show that so-called whites are considerably unrepresented demographically in such racially motivated violence.
Far from galvanizing the public, Biden’s monotonous racial demagoguery is turning it off.
The military suffers a vast drop in enlistments that began once Biden’s Pentagon brass, without evidence, likewise began demagoguing about supposed “white rage” in the ranks.
Only 37 percent of independents in a recent poll now support Biden. Some 70 percent of the public in other polls opposes a second Biden run.
So on spec, a panicked Biden now turns to what he has done for decades—inflammatory racial demagoguery.
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Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is an American military historian, columnist, a former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush. Hanson is also a farmer (growing raisin grapes on a family farm in Selma, California) and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism. He is the author most recently of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won, The Case for Trump and the recently released The Dying Citizen.
Photo “Joe Biden” by Joe Biden.
The only thing this president has accomplished is replacing Jimmy Carter as the worst president in US history. Carter, although inept as a president, was basically a good man just over his head in the position. Biden, on the other hand, is a liar, a plagiarists, deceitful and one who will do anything for his own benefit. He is not a good president and everyone who thinks he would have been different simply refused to see reality. He was a horrible Senator who accomplished nothing other than enriching himself while in office. Along with being a bad president, he is not a good man.
The U.S. Constitution was a finely tuned work of statecraft by our country’s Founding Fathers. It was not perfect (as is illustrated by the necessity for the Twelfth Amendment which arose from the unanticipated problems that occurred during the presidential election of 1800), but it is just about as close to perfection as human beings can engender when it came out of the Constitutional Convention in September 1787. Every part of it was placed in the document for a purpose, and each of the disparate parts in such document were designed to work seamlessly with all of the other parts. THAT is why it is so dangerous when modern day ‘statesmen’ attempt to tinker with our Constitution by adding this feature or the other and then deleting other language elsewhere, etc. The result of such ‘constitutional surgery’ is often deleterious unintended consequences which are not perceived at the time (because those ‘statesmen’ did not have a complete understanding of the whole) and which only become apparent later. Such is the case with the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in April 1913 which provided for the popular election of U.S. Senators.
Prior to this amendment, the U.S. House of Representatives was popularly known as ‘the people’s house’ because its members were directly elected by the voters from each State, and the U.S. Senate was known as ‘the States’ house’ because its members were directly elected by the state legislators of each State (i.e., that is, such national legislators were only indirectly elected by the voters from each State). Thus, each House of the U.S. Congress balanced the other House. Until 1913, only rarely did U.S. Senators serve for long lengths of time such as for thirty and forty years as is common today. True, this did sometimes happen (e.g., Henry Clay, John Calhoun, Daniel Webster, etc.), but even then there were ‘breaks in the service’ of such men because they would leave the U.S. Senate to serve elsewhere in the national government (e.g., Secretary of State or Secretary of War, etc.) before later returning to the U.S. Senate. The state legislator electors ‘saw’ to this such were the balancing of ambitions by knowledgeable and equally ambitious men in the state legislatures of our States.
As mentioned above, this all changed from and after the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913. So, the adoption of the Seventeenth Amendment which supposedly ‘fixed’ one problem unintentionally created another problem—the problem of the election of third-rate men like Joe Biden who, for example, came to the U.S. Senate in January 1973 and stayed, and stayed, and stayed. There was no constitutional mechanism after 1913 for knowledgeable, equally ambitious men in the Delaware State Legislature to purge this ‘grifter’ from the national government—and the net result was Joe Biden, as worthless and dishonest a man as to ever ‘grace’ the Oval Office of the United States.
If ever there is a ‘poster child’ for Term Limits for members of the U.S. Congress to hopefully spare us from such future indignities, it is Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., the so-called 46th President of the United States, if our country will indeed be fortunate enough to survive this foolish, lying, corrupt old man.
A good article VDH.
This clone of a human being is the worst president this nation HAS EVER HAD! Anyone who thinks otherwise is a total clueless moron. It just goes to show how the %$*@#*! democrats cheated in the presidential election. The donks could run a dog for president and win through cheating, and the republicans would just throw him a bone.