Joe Biden has crossed another major milestone, and I’m not talking about him setting records for presidential vacations, ice-cream eating, or inflation.
Biden, according to 538 polling site, is currently the least popular president at this time in history. Biden is less popular than anyone else in the past 90 years, even though he’s only his second year.
OUCH: Biden is now the most unpopular POTUS in *United States history.
The 517-day mark marks the worst POTUS approval, per @FiveThirtyEight . *Data began in late 30’s by @Gallup https://t.co/iWWiTK0eZU #ncpol #ncga #ncsen pic.twitter.com/RF4PcNsFyx
— Mike Rusher (@mjrusher) June 20, 2022
Biden is the only president to have fallen so low by the 517 day mark. Even Donald Trump, who often sat in the low-40s in approval surveys, mostly due to personality disagreements, wasn’t this far down in the aggregate by his second June in office. Heck, things are so bad that you can’t even use the word “polarizing” to describe Biden anymore because he’s not actually that polarizing. Instead, he’s just widely disapproved of by a large majority of Americans.
It isn’t surprising that all of these things are happening. On Monday, the president made it clear that the pain is the point, bleating while on vacation (again) that crushing inflation and gas prices are a chance to “make a fundamental turn” toward green energy. Biden wants Americans to be hurt. Americans are getting the message. Larry Summers (ex-Obama advisor) stated that it is impossible to control this type of inflation in the past without creating a recession. These are the facts. get worse.
I now turn my attention to the mid-term elections. I’m still seeing projections of Republicans only gaining 15-20 seats, with even a few true believers suggesting the Democrats could hold the House. On what planet is that possible given that Biden is this unpopular heading into November’s elections? It is no longer a normal first-mid-term lull which would most likely have given the House to Republicans anyway. Now we are talking about someone who has been disapproved at an historic level and is continuing to push the pedal as the country slides toward the economic cliff.
This is the only way out. I know Democrats, especially in the press, like to make themselves feel better by suggesting some Deaux ex Machina could occur prior to voters going to the polls, but that’s essentially an impossibility. With Democrats running all three branches, and hundreds of congressional race contests each year (i.e. you can’t just take out a single candidate), anything else that happens will simply be placed at the feet of Biden, not blamed on Republicans.
Finally, there is no guarantee that economic recovery will occur in the mid-terms. It’s not possible for inflation to be tamed to any reasonable level by November. It’s also not possible to avoid the stagnation the country is entering into. Biden made this bed with his radical, idiotic policy pursuits, and he’s about to be strapped to it like a gurney.
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