The Biden Administration Believes Things ‘Can’t Get Worse’ but I’ve Got Some Bad News – Opinion

Redstate published last night a report on the internecine battle between Joe Biden, Kamala Harris. But while Harris is responsible for many of her own woes, there’s no doubt that the tensions raging within the current administration are heavily exacerbated by the actual condition of the country.

In short, when things are going well, it’s easy to get along. The finger-pointing starts when failures start to pile up.

But the disagreements emerge when it’s time to assign blame for that reality. Harris’ staffers, in typical fashion, blame Biden for not defending her forcefully enough instead of the fact that she’s an awful politician and incredibly inauthentic. Meanwhile, Biden’s staffers note that Harris is unfocused and shows no competency to handle the problems she’s been given to tackle.

However, the real question here is: How low can the White House go? I’ll get to my prognostications on that in a moment, but to set things up, another report dropped this morning exposes the administration’s current state of mind. They seem to acknowledge that things are bad, but also believe they “can’t get worse.”

In private, @tylerpagerMany administration officials and their allies believe that things cannot get any worse and that Biden has been rated as a negative vote-getter. https://t.co/eZu2Ybwvzy

— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) November 15, 2021

To their private thoughts, administration officials and their allies believe the current state cannot get worse. They think Biden and Democrats have reached their lowest point in terms of approval. This is according to sources familiar with their thinking who were not authorized to speak on their behalf. By next year’s elections, top Democrats say, the national environment will look dramatically different. Top Democrats believe that the coronavirus epidemic will recede, which will allow Americans to return to normal life. They also predict that inflation and supply chain bottlenecks will ease. This will help to boost the economy.

“Folks need to calm down,” said Anthony Foxx, the former transportation secretary in the Obama administration. “That’s the main thing the Democratic Party needs to do. It’s not falling. Stop complaining. It’s not falling. Biden has made some extremely tough decisions in his first year in office, and it’s natural that the public will look at those changes in the composite and be somewhat skeptical of them. Hopefully, the longer play is one that will bear out, but this infrastructure package is a major achievement.”

I’ve got some bad news for Biden: Things absolutely can get worse, and they will.

The idea that the national environment will look “dramatically different” by next year is a pipe dream. Although COVID-19 may have receded slightly (though seasonality could see it spike again before the election), the long-term inflationary woes will be severe. The economy will remain a major issue.

Further, it’s important to understand the needle that the administration is trying to thread. The first term mid-term elections have been a major bloodbath for either party regardless of the good or bad news. That dynamic is not going away, and the idea that the infrastructure package is going to raise Biden’s approval enough to save his party is laughable. Normal Americans will not see any tangible benefits from this boondoggle. That’s especially true over the next year, where essentially none of the funded projects will be completed.

If Biden’s only “accomplishment” is the infrastructure bill, flanked by more failures than one can keep track of, a red tsunami is going to sweep across the country. We’ve already seen the preliminary waves crash on the beach via this year’s elections. Democrats must not only challenge history, but also make the most historic political comeback of American history to avoid a complete wipeout.

In this light, how has Biden demonstrated any ability to rebound and adapt? He’s a stubborn old man to the extent he even makes his own decisions. He is certain that his handlers don’t want to change their ways, since they are fully committed to the far left agenda. This is more like what George W. Bush saw in 2006. That administration thought things couldn’t get worse either, but again, things can always get worse.