Responding to the killing of three American soldiers by Iranian proxies this weekend, President Joe Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Middle East is now more volatile than at any moment since 1973.
At around the same time, Biden finally admitted that the southern border is in “crisis,” just as his Department of Homeland Security announced 300,000 migrants were arrested for illegally crossing into the U.S. in December, a number dwarfing all previous records.
Again, at the same time, inflation ticked higher last month, as a record number of people find they cannot pay their rent and consumers owe more personal debt than ever before. Workers can’t afford a home or a car, and their real wages are lower than when Biden took office.
There is upheaval, even chaos, at home and abroad.
Every one of these crises — Iranian aggression in the Middle East, chaos on our border, and higher prices at home — are all disasters created by Biden. His policies caused each, which is why, if anything, the president’s 40% approval rating isn’t low enough.
Biden is not the original architect of appeasement to Iranian aggression, an honor that goes to his former boss, President Barack Obama. But he followed through where Obama left off, undoing strict sanctions on Iranian oil sales in an attempt to appease the mullahs and revive Obama’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal. In addition to this $30 billion in sanction relief, which Iran was free to spend on terrorism throughout the region, Biden also gave Iran $6 billion in previously frozen oil sales and a lopsided prisoner exchange.
Instead of choosing peace and stability, as Obama naively hoped, Iran has spread terrorism and has sent weapons, money, and training to Hezbollah in Jordan, Hamas in Israel, and Houthis in Yemen. Every one of those Iranian proxies is now actively fighting America and its allies. Biden funded and appeased them all.
His culpability on the Mexican border is even clearer. He ran for office on a pledge to reverse the previous administration’s successful border policies and even told migrants around the world, “you should come.” They did so. Biden immediately ended the “Remain in Mexico” program, suspending all deportations for 100 days after arriving in office, opening new loopholes to Title 42 border enforcement, and issuing a memo promising not to deport anyone whose only crime was illegally entering the country.
When illegal border crossings spiked, as they did instantly, Biden first tried to deny the problem, dismissing it as a seasonal surge. When reality made that talking point unsustainable, he blamed Republicans even though not one Republican voted for any of the executive actions Biden took to weaken border security.
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On inflation, Biden can share blame with congressional Democrats who flooded the economy with trillions of dollars in deficit spending for favored constituencies, despite the fact that employment was already recovering as the government COVID shutdowns receded. Sky-high rents, unaffordable mortgage rates, record household debt, and lower real wages have been the direct result.
President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign apparently intends to focus on scaring voters about what a second Trump presidential term might look like. That’s to be expected. But look at what a second Biden term holds in store.