The Patriot Post® · The Biden/Harris Record of Domestic and Foreign Policy Failures
“Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men…” —John Adams (1776)
Let me just drop this right up top: As far as Democrat Party failures go, the most obvious would be Joe Biden. He is the Demo lemmings’ Pied Piper, the front man for the dumpster fires now consuming our nation. We’d be remiss if we didn’t give a big shout-out to all the dullard Demo voters who are responsible for this wreckage.
So, how to rate the biggest Biden/Harris failures when there are so many to choose from?
The most consequential of those failures would be our faltering economy.
Surging inflation reached 9% — a 40-year high. And that number does not accurately account for the less visible proliferation of “shrinkflation” — a term to describe prices on essential consumer products being upsized while packaging quantities or volumes are being downsized. The Producer Price Index reached whopping 11.3%.
Biden and Harris dropped a massive inflation bomb on our nation with unmitigated government spending.
As a result of inflation, real hourly wages fell 4.8% in the first two years since Biden took office, the worst since the 1970s. That is a monetary loss of $3,400 in annual wages per worker, or $6,800 per family in which both parents work. That’s a stiff price to avoid mean tweets.
Recall when Biden asserted inflation was “temporary”: “Our experts believe, and the data shows, that most of the price increases we’ve seen were expected and expected to be temporary.” All of his experts followed up by dutifully claiming that inflation was “transitory.” But months of soaring inflation is neither temporary nor transitory.
As of 2024, prices on consumer goods are up cumulatively, more than 20% since Biden and Harris took office.
Clearly, the emperor has no clothes, nor do his attendees. It’s no wonder our nation is in such dire straits, given that only a few of Biden’s “experts” have any real-world business experience.
To be clear, rising inflation is the direct result of Biden’s so-called American Rescue Plan, which dumped $1.9 trillion in taxpayer-funded graft into a $300 billion economic hole created by the COVID pandemic — on top of all the 2020 “COVID relief” spending already being dispensed. That excess $1.6 trillion is indisputably a major factor in the inflation now crushing family budgets.
Apparently not satisfied, lawmakers then dumped another $1 trillion in so-called “infrastructure spending” on the inflation pile, and Biden now wants to spend another trillion on his so-called Build Back Better boondoggle.
Don’t worry — inflation is just temporary and transitory! Surely the comparisons to Jimmy Carter aren’t accurate…
For the record, before Biden took office, our national economy had been dealt a severe blow by the ChiCom Virus pandemic — but was in a strong position to recover thanks to the pre-pandemic economic policies of Donald Trump and his administration. The nation was poised to make a full recovery by the time Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed” COVID vaccines were introduced.
There was record-low unemployment for Black and Hispanic Americans and a 50-year low for women; median household income was at a record high, while poverty was at a record low; inflation was at 1.4%, and our nation was energy independent; our borders were more secure than in decades; our international superpower standing had been restored, and our nation’s most dangerous foreign enemies were keeping their heads down, fearful of Trump.
Read that paragraph again! Seems like a lifetime ago.
On his first day in office, Biden set about reversing all of the Trump administration policies that accounted for surging American prosperity and security.
Now, America is in trouble, and all but the most dullard Democrats know it. Biden and his socialist Democrat Party are thoroughly mired down in a deep pile of Demo dung.
Even some of his most sycophantic talkingheads and scribes are turning against him, as evidenced by his former media allies, including The New York Times.
Moving down the list of Biden/Harris regime’s deliverables, what are their other most significant and consequential failures?
In short order, their policies have resulted in surging violent crime nationwide, particularly in Democrat-controlled urban centers. That crime is most often black-on-black, isolated within Biden’s most loyal constituency.
Biden/Harris policies have resulted in an open southern border and millions of illegal immigrants flooding into our country, precisely as the Demos planned. Their commitment not to prosecute illegals has drawn millions who will also be shipped under cover of darkness to your community.
Clearly, the unprecedented invasion across our southern border is, indisputably, the fault of “Border Czar” Harris’s ineptitude.
As this relates to the economy, I have written previously that illegal immigrants are deflating the wages of low- and middle-income American workers, as immigrants compete for their jobs. The party that once claimed to represent blue-collar, union, and minority workers is now crushing them.
The border is becoming more deadly than a war zone.
As for other blood on the hands of Biden and Harris, and those who support them, there were nearly 108,000 overdose deaths in the U.S. last year, most from fentanyl and most of that having been muled across our southern border.
The policies of Biden and Harris have resulted in a feckless foreign policy, beginning with his deadly surrender and retreat from Afghanistan, and now a deadly war in Ukraine on NATO’s doorstep — with an emboldened Vladimir Putin knowing he has nothing to fear from Biden. The appeasement of Putin has been deadly for thousands of men, women and children in Ukraine. (Recall that Harris was integrally involved in the administration’s surrender and retreat from Afghanistan.)
The Biden/Harris Doctrine is defined by weakness, and the projection of that weakness is perilous. You can view an extensive list of the consequences of their ineptitude here.
The Biden/Harris economy-crushing so-called climate change policies, which will do little or nothing to impact the weather, have also resulted in rising energy prices. America is no longer energy independent, which, as any foreign policy novice could tell you, has resulted in significant undermining of our national security.
Biden announced a “National Climate Emergency” in order to force more of his statist policies on the nation. Notably, only one percent of Americans rate climate change as a top concern.
On the culture front, Biden and his Demos have devoted enormous effort undermining faith and family, the foundational building blocks of American Liberty, which is the nemesis of their statist agenda. “Pride Month” may be over, but the Rainbow Mafia is never content.
Congressional Demos passed their so-called Respect for Marriage Act, pandering to their gender-confused constituents.
And each new day brings another chapter of Biden’s corrupt family business with the ChiComs. He has reinvigorated the Red China threat due to the influence peddling and corruption of office associated with Hunter Biden.
There is no more clear evidence of Biden/Harris policy failures, and by extension those of their Democrat Party, than Biden’s abysmal polling, a reflection of his pathetic performance on nearly every issue that matters to Americans. The last survey in which Biden’s job approval was above 50% was a Politico-Morning Consult survey in August 2021, when he squeaked by with a 51% approval rating. It’s been downhill ever since.
Notably, this week, CNBC’s All-America Economic Survey has Biden at a record low of 30% approval on his handling of the economy. That finding is mirrored by CNN’s latest polling.
Even though his White House press corps’ Democrat-to-Republican ratio is 12 to 1, Biden and company have been unable to move the public opinion needle back in their direction. Clearly, the wheels are coming off Biden’s presidency.
And the final entry of top failures— Kamala Harris’s polling was even lower than Biden’s, until she booted him to the curb and became the 2024 candidate. Harris checked off the race, gender, and generation boxes for the Biden ticket in 2020, and there was a lot of Democrat support for the feckless non compos mentis Biden ticket because she was on it then.
As political observer Charles Hurt writes of Biden’s failures, “Biden gives hope to imbeciles everywhere.”
Biden certainly kept his inaugural address “unity” promise — he has unified a majority of Americans against him. It is yet to be seen how Harris will fare.
What Demos want most is the ability to again run against Trump. And the fact that the Republican midterm election wave turned into a mere red ripple affirms just that.
So, what do I believe Trump should do?
He should spend all his energy in rallying his grassroots base — and then undermine the Democrats’ 2024 prospects, which are not likely to include Biden, by endorsing a younger presidential candidate who does not drag all the Trump baggage and division into the 2024 Republican primary. And considering Biden’s failing mental acuity, I note that Trump would be 78 years old Jan 2025, a year older than Ronald Reagan when he left office.
There is a great field of rising Republicans, and I would exclude Mike Pence, who would also drag the Trump baggage and division into 2024. At the moment, I strongly favor Ron DeSantis, whose record is extraordinary and is positioned well, paired with any number of great prospects for VP.
If Trump does not get in the way and Republicans can retake the House and Senate, they should start by impeaching Biden for wanton dereliction of duty, failing to abide by his constitutional obligations and oath. That won’t get anywhere because Republicans won’t control two-thirds of the Senate, but it will be irrevocably tied to the disgraceful Biden/Harris legacy.
Of course, I suspect there is nothing that would persuade Trump from running again, and given that the 2024 election is already rigged, it will be a steep uphill climb to victory.
And a footnote for clarity: Despite Trump’s assertions to the contrary, we are not a “failing nation.” We are, a nation that has been besieged with failed administrative policies.
Finally, let me remind those contemplating casting their vote for the Harris/Walz ticket, YOU can stop the bloodshed.
The slaughter of thousands of men, women, and children in Afghanistan, Ukraine, and Israel is the direct result of the Biden/Harris regime’s lethal foreign policy ineptitude.
The violent assaults on thousands of Americans by criminal illegal aliens are the direct result of “Border Czar” Harris’s lethal open border policy. The drug overdose deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans is also the result of the Biden/Harris open border policy.
The dramatic surge of violent crime across America since 2020 is the direct result of the Biden/Harris war on cops and appeasement of thugs.
The blood of all those victims is on the hands of Biden and Harris, and those who voted for them.
So let me appeal to your sense of humility and decency regarding those consequences: You now have a chance to wash their blood from your hands.
Next time you vote for a president, vote as if the lives of our Military Patriots and tens of thousands of innocent civilians depend on it.
Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis
Pro Deo et Libertate — 1776
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