Is Biden’s Presidency As Good As Over?

Biden’s presidency has come crashing down in the first year. The last few weeks were particularly fatal, culminating in a suicidal speech declaring his political opponents, some in his own party, racists and traitors.

According to the New York Post:

The scene was Atlanta where he gave a speech filled with distortions and extremely nasty attacks, as when the president challenged those who refuse to break the Senate filibuster to pass federal election legislation: “Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?”

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On its surface, the back-and-forth resembles Washington-as-usual. But this incident was anything but normal in that Biden angered both progressives and moderates in his own party while further alienating independents and Republicans. Good thing he has a dog, because it will be his only friend.

Despite burning so many bridges in spectacular fashion, Biden failed to advance his agenda an inch. In fact, his bizarre behavior rang the death knell.

Just two days after his repellant speech, he was forced to concede defeat at the Capitol when Dem Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia repeated that they would not break the filibuster.

Without a chance of victory, why did he waste more of his rapidly declining political capital on any speech, let alone one so inflammatory?

The answer is pure lunacy, but it explains all you need to know about the total incompetence and incoherence of the Biden presidency. It turns out that he and his team, feeling pressure from left-wing activists to get the voting bills passed, believed Biden needed to prove he was still fighting for them despite the odds against passage.

The idiotic language he used aside, the effort highlights how Biden’s decision to side with the party’s most radical elements has left him cravenly dependent on their support at the expense of abandoning all moderate voters — the people he pledged to represent.

To top it all off, the White House defended Biden against a Quinnipiac poll that put his approval at 33%, calling it an outlier to most other polls that put him higher – at 43%. Even CNN cringed at the memo, simplifying it to: “The White House wants to get something straight: President Joe Biden is unpopular. But he’s not that unpopular.”