Joe Biden’s 36% Approval Rating

How can it be that only as far back as 2016, foreign officials during Trump’s administration the Left threatened the “Logan Act” if a Trump official even talked with foreign officials? What changed? It’s not an illusion that Donald Trump seems more experienced and reflective than in 2016. His team, notes Victor Davis Hanson, was more disciplined and street smart, led by savvy chief of staff Susan Wiles.”

In American Spectator, VDH asks readers to remember back not so long ago, to 2016, when Donald Trump was considered “a demon.” Back then, Hanson continues, Trump officials couldn’t have even talked with foreign officials.

Now a departing” (or long-departed?) Joe Biden is saddled with a 36% approval rating.

The Unimaginable Has Happened

Unimaginable in 2014, Trump today is riding high as a cult hero in 2024, as Victor Davis Hanson explains:

The Biden years are viewed as abnormal, if not disastrous. Left-style fringe policies championed acts never imagined before”

• Destroying the border
• Welcoming in 12 million illegal aliens
• Nihilist critical race and legal theories
• Institutionalizing a third sex
• Mandating woke/DEI quotas indoctrination sessions

What Biden Inherited

• A secure border Covid
• 23% inflation
• No wars abroad
• Cheap Energy

Trump promises not only to restore but also to expand his successful first term.

Trump remains transparent, upbeat, and energetic—eager to meet with anyone, anytime, anywhere, to talk about anything.

Trump’s energy is grudgingly admired “even by some of his enemies who once sought but failed to destroy him.”

How many candidates have endured two impeachments, five civil and criminal court indictments, incessant lawfare, a 95% negative media, attempts to remove him from states’ ballots, and two assassination attempts?

The public failed to fall for these unprecedented hostile efforts to destroy Donald Trump.

(Instead, those efforts) may only have made him stronger—and more empathetic when seen as a target of increasingly fanatical enemies.

By expanding his ecumenical base, Trump has permanently branded it as a movement that welcomes shared class interests rather than fixates on the tired old tribal racial and ethnic chauvinism.

The evaporating and bitter Never Trump dead-enders were no match for Trump, who brought in disaffected Democrats, independents, and minorities.

Trump’s campaign cabal of RFK, Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Dana White, and Kid Rock “made it impossible for the left to demonize MAGA Republicans as right-wing aristocrats, warmongers, or laissez-faire capitalists.”

Overrated and unnecessary was the Biden-Harris legacy media, calcified Hollywood endorsers, blowhard university faculties, and tech barons.

More popular and dynamic internet influencers, podcasters, bloggers, and maverick entrepreneurs won the war for Trump.

It’s not an illusion that Donald Trump seems more experienced and reflective than in 2016. His campaign team, notes VDH, was more disciplined and street smart, led by savvy chief of staff Susan Wiles.”

Donald Trump’s pivotal moments:

• Posing for a mug shot after being railroaded by a weaponized lawfare indictment
• Serving McDonald’s drive-through customers
• Riding in a garbage truck cab
• Raising his fist and yelling “fight, fight, fight”—after having his head nearly blown off by a would-be assassin.