Mar
24
Biden Administration = Big Fail!
“That’s not the resume of a ‘uniter in chief.'” — Jarrett Stepman, columnist for The Daily Signal and author of The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past
What do you consider to be the biggest failures of the Biden administration (or, as some prefer, “Biden regime”), so far?
Earlier this month, in anticipation of Joe Biden’s fourth (and hopefully last) State of the Union Address, The Daily Signal‘s Jarrett Stepman put together a summary of what he feels are the Top 6 areas of failure. In case you missed it, I thought it might be helpful to provide a shortened version before you decide if you want to read Stepman’s full (medium-length) article. As usual, I’ll do some quoting, highlighting, and summarizing of my own….
1) The Worst Border Crisis in US History
“[T]he Biden administration has done all it can to ensure the flow of illegal aliens continues, knowing that once they’re allowed into the country most are likely here to stay.” This includes stripping away Trump’s border security measures (e.g., the “Remain in Mexico” policy) and directing the Census Bureau to count noncitizens in the reapportionment numbers. “According to a Fox News report late last month, about 7.2 million illegal border crossings have occurred since Biden became president…. It’s become such a disaster that even a few Democrat mayors and governors have begun to grouse.”
2) The DEI Bureaucratic Cultural Revolution
“Equity” is the administration’s mandate. “Administration officials aren’t doing this by ensuring that Americans will be treated equally under the law. Instead the goal is the opposite: to wholly racialize the American republic and to turn us into warring ‘oppressed’ groups clawing for scraps from the federal government. From advancing critical race theory, to promoting gender transition for minors, to obliterating American history on public land, the Biden administration has empowered the bureaucracy to turn ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ — or DEI — into a kind of ideological state religion.”
3) Weaponized Agencies
The federal bureaucracy has also been “outright weaponized to attack political opponents of the regime.” There has been a massive expansion of the Internal Revenue Service, which is ripe for abuse. “The DOJ put out a memo in 2021 essentially saying that parents protesting at local school board meetings were potential domestic terrorists. A House committee later found no justification at all for this conclusion. This looked more like a smear campaign to silence opposition. More recently, the FBI moved to investigate traditional Catholic pro-life groups as potential domestic terrorists…. This is happening as the Justice Department has remained mostly silent while hundreds of pro-life pregnancy centers have been targeted for arson and vandalism by pro-abortion extremists.”
4) Debt, Inflation, and the Cost of Living
The White House PR (and other talking heads) tout a wonderful economy and job growth under Bidenomics. “But the administration hasn’t been able to hide from inflation and attendant cost-of-living increases, which are eating away at the savings and finances of countless Americans.”
“According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, prices paid by business and consumers alike have increased 18% on average since Biden took office in January 2021,” Heritage Foundation economics expert EJ Antoni wrote in February. The reason for this is that Congress and the Biden administration not only spent trillions of dollars on COVID-19 emergency aid — including billions wasted or stolen — but kept the spigot going afterward.
5) Global Instability as Military Recruitment Collapses
It began with the embarrassing pull-out from Afghanistan, for which none were held accountable. We’ve spent multiple billions of dollars on the Russian/Ukraine war with no end in sight. “The Middle East — incredibly stable during the Trump administration — looks to be closer to all-out war as Iran and its proxies attack Israel. And China has been disturbingly aggressive in its actions toward the United States.”
“The Biden administration has prioritized diversity, equity, and inclusion and related LBGTQ initiatives for the State Department and the military. The Biden administration insists that DEI efforts are necessary to increase military recruitment and the effectiveness of the military, but the truth seems to be the opposite. The military now spends an increasing amount of time on DEI training and less on honing its warfighting capabilities.”
The military is demoralized, and there has been “a historic collapse in recruitment rates for the all-volunteer forces, especially among whites.”
6) Still No Return to ‘Normalcy’
“Biden campaigned in 2020 on the message that he would restore normalcy and confidence in the presidency and the country. Instead, Biden has used his time in office to portray his opponents as extremists (while acting like an extremist himself), has called his likely 2024 rival an ‘insurrectionist’ as political allies attempt to arrest the former president, and has left many Americans feeling pessimistic and downright hopeless about the future.”
Yep, that about sums it up. I thought Stepman did a pretty good job, and I can’t think of any glaring omissions. What do you think?
