Thorner: A Stark Report of Biden’s First Six Months in Office

 

“The White House shared six photos marking the Biden presidency, including when he was sworn into office, when he toured the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and when the Senate passed the American Rescue Plan.” 

 

It also included photos of Biden's address to a joint session of Congress, and when he attended the G-7 summit in the U.K., as well as when he signed legislation making Juneteenth an official holiday. 

 

"These are just a few of the moments that have made the last six months," the White House account said. 

 

In marking the anniversary Jen Pasaki said:  "Since taking office, the president has acted to get America back on track by addressing the crises facing this nation, vaccinating America to beat the pandemic, delivering much needed help to American families, making transformative investments to rescue and rebuild our economy, and fundamentally showing that government can deliver for the American people.” 

 

 

According to a  new ABC News/Ipsos poll, "When  President Joe Biden completed 100 days in office, the country was optimistic about the coming year, but now, just after hitting the six-month mark, Americans' optimism about the direction of the country has plummeted nearly 20 points."

 

“A majority — 55% — of the public say they are pessimistic about the direction of the country, a marked change from the roughly one-third (36%) that said the same in an ABC News/Ipsos poll published May 2. Looking ahead to the next 12 months, fewer than half — 45% — now report feeling optimistic about the way things are going, a significant drop from about two-thirds (64%) in the May poll.”

 

 

President Joe Biden's latest job approval rating of 50% is down from 56% in June. Before this month, his ratings had not shown meaningful variation during his time in office, and the current figure marks the lowest measured for him to date.

 

“The new rating is from a July 6-21 Gallup poll, which also finds that 45% of U.S. adults disapprove of Biden's performance and 5% do not have an opinion. It comes at a time when U.S. progress in fighting the coronavirus has stalled, with vaccination rates slowing and case levels now rising. The economic recovery continues, with unemployment declining and stock market values near record highs. But consumers are paying higher prices for gas and other goods. Biden has also struggled to deliver on his promise of greater bipartisanship, although negotiations on an infrastructure bill continue in the Senate.”

 

Few Americans have changed their minds since the 2020 election. Biden’s job approval rating over his first six months in office was the steadiest such rating of any recent president during that period, according to FiveThirtyEight’s historical approval rating data. His approval has ranged from a high of 55.1 percent on March 22 to a low of 51.1 percent on July 15 — a difference of just 4 percentage points.

 

 

Despite the alignment of the mainstream media, Hollywood, the Deep State, and billionaire supporters with the policies of the Biden/Harris administration's Democratic/Socialist policies, the following is obvious to Americans who are paying attention:

 

Our southern border with Mexico is in chaos. We are seeing the highest levels of illegal immigration in 21 years with Customs and Border Patrol officers apprehending more than 1 million migrants crossing the border this fiscal year. 

 

In Afghanistan, where U.S. forces are completing a pullout, the radical Islamic insurgents of the Taliban are on the rise, executing prisoners and threatening to reconquer the entire country.

Meanwhile, China continues its aggressive military modernization program, flexing its muscles in the South China Sea, threatening Taiwan and our allies in the western Pacific.

Here at home, bad policies, massive spending, and tax increase proposals are driving up prices and inflation for workers and families, while raising the national debt above $28 trillion. 

 

 

As an outstanding scholar of history, Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is an American military historian, columnist, a former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush. Hanson is also a farmer (growing raisin grapes on a family farm in Selma, California) and a critic of social trends related to farming and agrarianism. He is the author most recently of The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won and The Case for Trump.

 

Hanson's commentary of July 18, 2021, The American Descent into Madness, is excellent.  As such, Thorner has excerpted and adapted below the full 21-page original report here.  

 

7-18-21, Victor Davis Hanson — Nations have often gone mad in a matter of months; the French in 1793, China in 1966 and the USA 2020-2021. America is seeing absurdities never witnessed in our modern history. Madness, not politics, defines it. Law has been rendered meaningless and left-wing political agendas justify any means necessary to achieve them.

 

Currently American citizenship is mere residency as two million people are anticipated to illegally cross the southern border over 12-months. One does not arrive as a guest in a foreign country and immediately violate the laws of his host—unless one holds those laws in contempt. After opening the U.S. southern border to pseudo-political refugees storming into Texas, now the Biden Administration is terrified that thousands of real refugees might come to Miami from Cuba turning Florida 'RED.' And health standards applied to US citizens do not apply to invading foreigners; like screening for Covid virus or demanding vaccination while knocking on Americans doors …

 

There exists a mini-industry of internet videos depicting young people in San Francisco, CA, disproportionately African American males, stealing luxury goods from Nieman-Marcus or clearing shelves from a Walgreens. It’s done with impunity as the law won’t prosecute if merchandise is under $950. San Francisco’s Shoplifting law Prop 47 here .  Chicago has turned into Tombstone or Dodge City as shootings and killings go unabated. A subculture has developed among Americans, of passing information: where in the country it’s safe and where it’s not?
   
Universities in America the Ivy League or major state university admissions are no longer based on proportional representation in the context of just affirmative action. Now grades, test scores and “activities” of the white and Asian male college applicants are growing less relevant or accepted. Only “privileged” white males with sports skills, connections, or families who give lots of money are exempt from the new racial reparation quotas.
 
The 'critical race theory' [aka anti-white people] craze is reaching peak ‘woke,’ [aka social awareness] or is already on the downslope. It's not just a drain on the productive sector but will insidiously destroy its goal is to ensure a timid and banal orthodoxy.
 
Americans during this entire descent in madness sighed, “Well, at least there is the military left.” However, John Brennan had all but wrecked the CIA and James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page et weaponized the FBI. But the military was still a bastion of traditional, nonpartisan service, whose prime directive was to defend the country. Is it still?
 
Finally, almost all Americans used to agree that the U.S. Constitution was unique and guaranteed personal freedom in a way the United Nations charter could not. Dozens of Fascist, Communist, totalitarian, and authoritarian regimes, usually the majority of governments on earth, ensured that any General Assembly or U.N. committee ruling would parrot the views of its illiberal and corrupt members. Not anymore.
   
US Sec of State Antony Blinken has invited the U.N. to assess whether the United States meets global standards of justice! That’s like asking China to adjudicate the conditions in U.S. prisons.
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The public has had enough; now for the first time Citizens will ask why are:

We subsidizing student loans?
Multi-billion dollar endowments not taxed?

 

B.A. in sociology or psychology or gender studies considered an “investment” that prepares anyone for anything?

In December 2019 America was the freest country in the world and by July 2021 she has become a repressive frightening place. It went not so much hard-Left as stark-raving mad. It’s not workable and millions will collectively decide they have no choice but to push back concluding:

“In the 233rd year of our republic, we tens of millions are not going to cede freedom of thought and expression to thousands of Maoists. Sorry, no can do.”