How would you grade Biden's presidency on a scare of 0-10 so far?
Hyperbole aside, not high! This is probably the worst presidency of my lifetime.
The Biden administration was elected on the heels of COVID-19 and people getting angry at Trump. This administration and the Democratic Party now act akin to an emperor with no clothes, acting like they have some kind of grand mandate given to them by the American people when they fluked into a victory. And they are reaping what they sow.
This arrogance and utter detachment from reality is what defines the Biden administration. This administration is ran by technocrats or ideological left wingers who have no touch with the American people. Even the Obama administration, for all its ineptitude, didn’t feature as disgustingly incompetent and out of touch individuals controlling it (though they were still disgustingly out of touch and incompetent, just not to the degree of this administration). And Obama also actually had a base of supporters, whereas Mr Biden has no floor in terms of how unpopular he can get.
I didn’t find the presidency of one George W. Bush to be a successful one overall (and it was disastrous for the GOP) but even then, it took them at-least 6 full years to collapse in a spectacular fashion. Biden’s administration has gone from a 49-52% approval in the early part of this year to an approval in the low 40’s or even the high 30’s in some polls.
These are Trump level approval ratings, but like Biden’s old boss, Trump had a strong base of support, even if his ceiling was on the lower side. Biden does not have one, and has no mandate from the American people.
But for his party to act like they do is the arrogance I’m referring to- be it inflation, the Afghanistan blunder, the complete and utter failure that we are on the world stage now, China/Russia/Iran feeling emboldened, the border crisis, COVID not being “solved” at all, insane mandates that will destroy our economy, energy independence being wiped out (which causes higher gas prices) or literally anything else from this administration, or the $3.5T bill of garbage they’re attempting to shove through?
This president and his party are acting like none of those issues matter and that he got elected by insane margins, and that this man has any type of mandate given to him by the American people. You only got elected because of mass mail in voting being more common due to a once in a lifetime pandemic, and suburbanites being pissed off at Trump’s tweets. You did not win any type of serious mandate from the people and you’ll learn that the hard way in 2022 and 2024.
I can’t fathom how someone would call ANYTHING about this presidency to be successful. This administration is a humiliation fetish to come fruition domestically and internationally and while it may not be the most disastrous one in human history, there are virtually no redeeming qualities about it. And it’s the utter arrogance of it that really hits home.
1/10.