The radical Left was hoping 2024 would be all about Donald Trump.
Instead, the No. 1 issue in a world on fire is Joe Biden’s incompetence.
This from thefederalist.com.
Last week, Biden said he would withdraw military aid to Israel if it commenced military operations to go into Rafah and go after Hamas. Reactions were scattered to this latest installment of the incoherent Israel policy of The Regime since Hamas’ brutal attack last October that touched off the war in Gaza.
Without definitive direction, America and Americans are at odds with their responses. To wit:
– The American people are broadly supportive of Israel and the moral justification for this war,
– Hamas is still holding five American citizens hostage at this very moment, and
– [T]he hard-left grassroots—an important part of the [communist/globalist] coalition—are radically pro-Palestinian and eager to engage in street violence domestically to prove the point.
Furthermore, the hard-left shock troops are not just emblematic of the party’s activist heart—their efforts to destabilize colleges and worse are being funded by George Soros, the Tides Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and those that hold the purse strings for billions of dollars of funding for communists/globalists and their lefty causes.
Unsurprisingly, the issue is drastically polarizing the Leftist coalition.
For instance, normally America’s celebrities are engaged in overt social media campaigning for the [Left] six months out from an election. Well, here’s a video of Jewish actor Michael Rapaport, an avowed Trump hater, unendorsing Biden in characteristically profane fashion.
Also, last week, rapper Macklemore released a banger of an old-school hip-hop track in support of the Palestinian protests, which isn’t a huge surprise given his antisemitic bona fides. Macklemore’s song is primarily notable for one verse: ‘The blood is on your hands, Biden/ we can see it all/ and f-ck no/ I’m not votin’ for you in the fall.’
NOTE: The Obiden Regime has plainly flip-flopped on support of Israel.
The Regime is making up reasons to withdraw support, there are no principles here, there’s no attempt to articulate and stake out a position, and there’s no attempt to lead.
Meanwhile, the Gaza conflict has significantly disrupted global shipping and threatens to turn into a full war in the Middle East.
And, like almost every other major challenge of his, Biden’s approach has been defined by his incompetence.
As Obama Defense Secretary Robert Gates put it:
I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.
Presently, Biden’s incompetence “on Israel and beyond is so evident that it’s far outstripping voters’ fear of the chaos that might accompany another Trump presidency.”
And this “fear of the chaos…of another Trump presidency” must be analyzed from a sober point of view. Any apparent “chaos” was less Trump’s fault, and more the cause of Deep-State hijinks such as the Russia collusion hoax, the Pelosi-produced Jan 6 debacle, the pair of Pelosi-fabricated impeachments to nowhere, and the current spate of absurd and politically motivated criminal charges against him—all manufactured controversies designed by the Deep-State for the purpose of self-preservation. And, yes, damn chaotic, indeed!
Counter to The Regime’s every destructive effort to diminish the United States of America, the Trump administration achieved the Abraham Accords which were such a diplomatic success at building peace in the region that when Iran launched missiles at Israel last month, Jordan and Saudi Arabia helped shoot them down.
That kind of collaboration between Israel and Arab states, let alone in the middle of a conflict with the Palestinians, would have been unthinkable not that many years ago.
On top of that, Trump was the first president since Carter not to start any new foreign wars—and he managed to maintain relative peace exhibiting serious strength against American adversaries, such as going after Russians in Syria and killing Iranian terror chief Qasem Soleimani.
And—to speak again about who actually caused the chaos in D.C.—through all this, Trump was mocked by D.C.’s profoundly terrible foreign policy establishment, not to mention our free-riding European allies.
Remember when Trump went to the UN and told the Germans not to become too dependent on Russian energy, and ‘German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas could be seen smirking alongside his colleagues?’ Well, one new Ukraine war and an exploded Nordstream pipeline later, both of which happened on Joe Biden’s watch, who’s smirking now?
Foreign policy is merely the start of bad news for Biden. Presently, there are other very significant issues. To wit, “the economy and [the invasion of illegals] where a rational voter not bound by ideology would easily prefer Trump’s track record in the wake of Biden’s demonstrable failures.”
Indeed, the most recent New York Times poll—which has Trump leading in five of the six key swing states—noted:
Mr. Trump’s strength is largely thanks to gains among young, Black, and Hispanic voters.
Contrary to what Trump’s opponents feign, voters in general do not recall Trump as causing his presidency to be chaotic. Again, the chaos was caused by the Deep-State attacks on the president, not him defending himself.
In retrospect, Trump’s presidency looks like the inverse of Biden’s residency: Voters felt safer and more prosperous under Trump.
Final thoughts: Reviewing the sum of big issues faced by Trump and Biden and the manner in which they have each handled these issues, in this election voters are having a hard time believing Biden is capable of rising to any occasion—forget about being able to perform better than Trump.
