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Reviewing why most Americans disapproved of President Biden.

 

Over a wide range of issues and not just the economy and out-of-control inflation, most Americans disapproved of President Joe Biden, as Zogby reported millions regretted voting for Biden.

In the RealClear Politics’ average of 10 polls since 2021, Mr. Biden’s disapproval never dipped below 54.1 percent. Even in the liberally slanted poll, NPR/PBS, his approval rating dropped to 40 with a disapproval by 55 percent of Americans.

After less than a year in office, the Rasmussen Poll reported Election Regrets: Most Wouldn’t Vote to Reelect Biden.

The trend started in 2021 when President Biden went against 84 percent of Americans in the Afghanistan crisis, according to an ABC News Poll.

Biden policies led to a devastating string of broken promises and blunders:

  • Promised unity, but instead pushed a partisan, socialist agenda
  • Skyrocketing inflation
  • Destroyed America’s energy independence by stopping drilling of oil and killing thousands of jobs
  • Failure to adequately deal with the Russia invasion of Ukraine and forcing America to rely on Russian oil, which finances Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
  • Afghanistan (Majority Rate Biden ‘Poor’ on Afghanistan Fear Hundreds of Americans Left Behind)
  • Massive spending bills worsening America’s debts
  • Ignored a Supreme Court ruling in his border crisis, and allowing countless illegal immigrants
  • Failure in dealing with America’s biggest adversary, China

Those are just eight examples.

These disappointments did not surprise Biden watchers over his several decades as a member of the ruling class in Washington:

  1. Authored the 1994 Crime Bill – resulting in a mass incarceration of Black Americans.
  2. His plagiarism forced him to drop out of the 1988 presidential race – when it was revealed he stole quotes from the late President John F. Kennedy and other politicians.
  3. He and his son have capitalized on questionable dealings (Hunter Biden: What was he doing in China and Ukraine? – BBC).
  4. He voted to overturn Glass-Steagall, the wall to save America’s economy – the economic buffer between FDIC-insured deposits and investment bankers.
  5. He once praised a racist in his eulogy of Strong Thurmond – who had filibustered for more than 24 hours against the 1957 Civil Rights Act.
  6. In the 1970s, he opposed school integration – and sponsored an anti-busing bill.

Additionally, he’s demonstrated a tin ear and committed a long series of gaffes:

His ethics have been questionable. Also, the ethics of his son, Hunter, were drawing fire from America’s oldest newspaper.

Actually, President Biden wasn’t even in office for a week when social media exploded with many of his supporters, especially union workers, expressing their dismay over his executive orders and policy announcements.

Their buyers’ remorse helped fuel the 17-million Google search results in the keywords, “regret Biden.” Why? Mr. Biden signed more executive orders in his first week than any other president, and some were job-killers.

The mainstream media questioned his actions. For example, here’s a headline from the Associated Press: Biden faces scrutiny over reliance on executive orders. And even left-leaning publications rebuked him, such as in Opinion | Ease Up on the Executive Actions, Joe – The New York Times.

Of course, Mr. Biden drew fire from the New York Post: Biden refuses questions as executive order criticism grows.

Pandemic effects

Mr. Biden and fellow Democrats ostensibly pinned their hopes on his ability to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. But polls showed Americans disapproved of his approach. This, after he promised to outperform President Trump but has already drawn heavy criticism after he admitted nothing can change the trajectory of the Covid pandemic over the next several months.

The headwinds were strong against Mr. Biden. America felt like a return to the incompetent presidency of Jimmy Carter and why he failed – according to the Brookings Institution.

A lot depends on Mr. Trump, and what he does to counter Mr. Biden’s incompetence. The Republican Party is decidedly his. Only 5 percent of Republicans have buyers’ remorse.

Some Blue states such as California and New York are losing populations to Red states. Florida is booming. Texas is benefiting by attracting new residents and tech companies. This probably means the Blue states are losing Congressional representatives to the Red states.

Mr. Biden promised to kill the Trump tax cuts. And when the Federal Reserve continued to increase interest rates even with the unemployment rate healthy, Mr. Biden caused more business failures.

In fact, small-business confidence trended low in surveys by the National Federation of Independent Business during President Biden’s tenure.

This propelled high-tax governments into higher taxes and worse budget crises (see Governments – from Cities to Federal – Dangerously in Debt). Concurrently, that’s why there have been even more empty store fronts, deteriorating schools and transit systems in Blue cities like Seattle and Portland.

Biden’s economic team

Mr. Biden’s economic team was focused solely on climate change, anti-business, and gender and race screens. His executive orders on the Keystone XL pipeline, the Paris Accord and energy-lease moratoriums on public lands killed at least 1 million high-paying union jobs in the energy sector.

Astonishingly in healthcare, Mr. Biden halted the requirement of community health centers to provide insulin and epinephrine at discounted rates to impoverished patients.

His disappointing executive order on sex mandates that biological boys be allowed to compete against girls overwhelmingly undermined women’s sports, privacy and safety.

Trump economic achievements

The U.S. economy has climbed back similar to the first Trump Administration when the economy worked for everybody. Mr. Trump has succeeded against big pharma in drug prices. Now back down to 4.3 percent, the unemployment rate had plummeted to 3.5 percent – the best in more than 50 years. Employers couldn’t find enough workers.

Published reports also indicated household incomes skyrocketed under President Trump. For Blacks and Hispanics and low-income families, wealth improved dramatically: 35 percent, 33 percent and 65 percent, respectively. Even Bloomberg News admitted Mr. Trump’s economy really was better than Obama’s.

Furthermore, the Trump economic accomplishments were voluminous.

Unlike the Carter and subsequent administrations, Mr. Trump also achieved historic normalization of relations between multiple Arab countries and Israel. As a result, polling shows orthodox Jews back President Trump by a massive margin.

But all of this had to be changed because Mr. Biden obsessively reversed the Trump cultural and economic achievements, and is why even many of his supporters have expressed buyers’ remorse.

The tendency for Mr. Biden to only listen to liberal academia, think tanks and government agencies – for corrupt and exploitative policies for political gain and power – nearly sent America back to the decrement of the 1970’s Jimmy Carter era. The Biden Administration policies were decadent and impeded America’s cultural and economic progress.

It’s also troubling his massive spending and that no one in the Biden Administration was inclined to address the worsening federal debt. It climbed to more than $30 trillion during the Biden years.

Clearly, America deserves better.

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“A fool and his money are soon elected.”

-Will Rogers

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