President Joe Biden delivers remarks at a Congressional Gold Medal bill signing event to honor U.S. Capitol police, Thursday, August 5, 2021, in the Rose Garden of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
Joe Biden made many promises on the campaign trail. He said he’d do a better job than Trump on COVID, foreign policy, and immigration. But America remains diseased, has departed Afghanistan in defeat, and faces a growing immigration crisis that Biden has made exponentially worse, not better. As Pat Buchanan explains at his blog, Buchanan.org, “Everything is not coming up roses for Biden.” And Americans are unhappy about it. He explains (abridged):
Everything is not coming up roses for Biden.
An Economist poll finds his approval rating underwater, with 49% disapproving of Biden’s performance in office to 46% in approval.
The latest Quinnipiac poll, out Tuesday, is more ominous. It has 50% of the country disapproving of the Biden presidency, with only 42% approving, the first time Biden’s rating has fallen into negative territory. More worrisome: Independents disapprove of Biden by 52-34.
When broken down by issues, the news is no better.
On his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, Biden’s rating has plunged from 53-40 approval in August to 48% approving and 49% disapproving now. Fifty-five percent disapprove of his handling of his duties as commander in chief.
His mastery of foreign policy was supposed to be his strong suit. But here the numbers are even worse. Only a third of the nation, 34%, approves of his handling of foreign policy, while 59% disapprove.
The invasion across our southern border is now producing 220,000 border crossers every month.
We are still in the fourth wave of the coronavirus, with the number of American dead, already over 670,000, rising at a rate of 2,000 a day.
If the wave does not break, this will depress the mood of a country that believed, just a few months back, that the worst was behind us and brighter days lay ahead.
And the poll numbers are not only the worst Biden has received. They are not all that good for the nation either.
Seventy percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the direction of the USA. The president’s disapproval exceeds his approval rating by eight points, just eight months in office.
By Patrick J. Buchanan
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