Bidens bait-and-switch presidency set the stage for Harris defeat

He thought he could be FDR, but he always better resembled Jimmy Carter.Say what you might about Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday, the Democrats’ defeat was richly deserved.Nearly four years ago to the day, Joe Biden became president-elect of the United States in no small part because he offered the American people some semblance of normalcy.After the Trump years, Biden’s moderate affect had some appeal.The longtime politico was a familiar face who packaged his policies in relatively benign rhetoric.When the near-octogenarian who once denounced Roe v.Wade and championed a tough-on-crime bill said that he would govern from the center and unify the country, voters believed him.Then he stabbed them in the back.Sold on delusions of grandeur by his allies and overly reliant on his misguided staff, Biden governed as if he was the president of some far-left campus club rather than a diverse country weary of hardcore partisans.He tried to destroy the livelihoods of Americans who exercised their right not to be vaccinated against COVID-19.He deliberately opened the border in the name of kindness, while callously ignoring the dire consequences on migrants and citizens alike.He embraced the most radical elements of social experimenters and cast their opponents as bigots.He denied inflation’s crushing impact until he couldn’t any longer.And then when he finally vowed to fix it, he pushed through yet another one of the profligate spending bills that had helped cause the problem in the first place.He even had the temerity to call it the “Inflation Reduction Act.”Moreover, while Biden is fond of boasting about his supposedly superior foreign policy experience, he made rookie mistake after rookie mistake as commander-in-chief.Those mistakes yielded not just a national embarrassment and the loss of American lives in Afghanistan, but chaos across the globe.

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