Give the man a break!
Poor Joe
By nearly every measure, from the economy to foreign policy, the Biden presidency has been a failure.
In 2020, when Joe Biden campaigned for the White House, he vowed to “shut down” the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly half a million Americans have died of the virus since Biden assumed office in January 2021, many of them during the omicron outbreak.
In 2020, Biden promised to “restore the soul of our nation.” Since then, he has attacked the U.S. Supreme Court directly while on foreign soil, calling the court the single most “destabilizing” force in the world. Since 2020, he has falsely blamed private businesses for high gas prices, seeking desperately to absolve his administration of any responsibility for rising inflation. He has also accused opponents of the Democratic Party's overreaching “voting rights” agenda of being on the side of George Wallace, Bull Connor, and Jefferson Davis.
And this is to say nothing of the deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, the humanitarian crisis on the U.S. southern border, and the utter disaster that is Vice President Kamala Harris.
Remember, though, it is you who are wrong to notice Biden’s many failures, according to the president’s most sycophantic cheerleaders in the press. Being president is hard! They don’t teach this in school!
“Give Biden a break,” the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank pleaded in a July 6 opinion article.
Argued CNN’s perpetually wrong Chris Cillizza, “Joe Biden can't catch a break.”
Then, of course, there’s the Atlantic’s resident “expert” Tom Nichols, who penned an article in January titled “Leave Joe Biden alone.”
Sensing a theme yet?
In 2021, New York magazine published an article titled simply “Give Biden a break.”
The New Republic that same year published an article similarly titled “Give Joe Biden a break.”
And so on.
Won’t someone please think of our dear, fragile president? Be gentle. It’s his first time.