In delivering caucus and primary victories to former President Donald Trump, Republican voters seem poised to grant the wishes of Trump’s presumed opponent, President Joe Biden. The president and his party see Trump as an easy mark, or at least easier to beat than other Republicans. We hope, even at this late hour, the GOP declines to nominate Trump.
The regime of Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris has been a divisive disaster and does not deserve a second term. What Biden and his appointees have wrought are illiberal and undemocratic and arguably anti-constitutional.
Biden’s encouragement of massive illegal immigration that long ago metastasized from crisis into tragedy. America was built on the idea of a social compact in which citizens embrace liberty under laws created through representative consent; there should be no place for those who flout that compact and reject consent by violating the law at the moment of their arrival. No liberal humanitarianism should encourage them to come.
With more than 10 million illegal border crossings in three years, 2 million “released” into the U.S. heartland without realistic means of their eventual removal, more than 300,000 unaccompanied children entering with no means of support, and more than 500 people dying each year trying to cross, the border catastrophe alone should disqualify the president from reelection.
Just as the border crisis is a threat to national security, so are Biden’s feckless foreign policies. The botched scramble from Afghanistan was perhaps the most embarrassing cluster-foul-up in U.S. diplomatic history. It also emboldened foreign adversaries worldwide. U.S. interests have also been hurt by Biden’s refusal to get tough enough with Iran, by his repeated dithering about which weapons to send to Ukraine in the first year after Russia invaded, and by his opposition to pay raises for enlisted military personnel even in the face of major recruitment difficulties.
His economic record is atrocious. He had increased 10-year spending totals by more than $10 trillion, pushing year-over-year inflation above 6% for 17 straight months. Inflation has harmed many more people than it has helped, with wages lagging behind price hikes under Biden, leaving the average weekly take-home pay worth nearly $180 less in real terms.
All those misguided Biden policies, though, fit within the usual bounds of liberal-Democratic Party orthodoxy. Where Biden has lurched into truly radical and divisive actions is in his full embrace of the hard Left’s social agenda and his weaponization of the federal bureaucracy and Justice Department.
Whereas 16 years ago, even newly inaugurated President Barack Obama still notionally opposed gay marriage, now Biden puts the full weight of government behind policies concealing children’s gender “transitions” from parents and forcing girls to accept biological boys into their locker rooms. Likewise, Biden is trying to shutter faith-based providers of foster care if they refuse to participate in these fictional and damaging transitions. And he is trying to stop the removal of pornographic books from elementary school classrooms. These positions are outlandishly extreme.
Throughout the bureaucracy, Biden and his minions assert executive authority found nowhere in the Constitution, try end runs around court decisions, and stifle economic progress in the name of environmental and social justice. Every branch of his administration pushes diversity-equity-inclusion hatefulness the malign effects of which are seen in, among other things, college student protests supporting genocide.
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Biden’s press secretary won’t even denounce dangerous, illegal demonstrations at the homes of Supreme Court justices that his Justice Department refuses to stop. The same Justice Department harasses innocent anti-abortion protesters and targets traditional Catholics while doing almost nothing against pro-abortion groups terrorizing pregnancy resource centers that Biden is trying to put out of business.
None of this is remotely within the conception of the “mainstream” of the public’s views. On substance, this is the most divisive administration in living memory. Its agenda must not be ratified for another term.