And we will continue to do so as long as he is President of the United States.
After a long string of achievements and accomplishments, not the least of which was restoring the NATO alliance confidence in America's support and unifying the alliance after Trump's disastrous undermining of it, and his flirting with Vladimir Putin, along with getting a signature infrastructure bill passed, nominating and successfully seating an African-American woman on the Supreme Court, as promised, we are having a bit of a legislative lull. That's not the President's fault.
Nor is the inflation and price of gasoline, which are always high on the complaint list, President Biden's fault, or due to his energy policy or economic policy. It's not like the news media doesn't have something to talk about, with the January 6th hearings moving along, and of course, the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe. But here we are, with the President's job approval ratings at a low point of his Presidency, with the news media finding Democrats who want to see someone else run in 2024, before the midterm elections in 2022, at a point when Democrats should be rallying around their candidates and working to the best of their ability to make sure Republicans do not win the majority in Congress back.
This is a critical point for the United States, with the imminent danger of a fascist takeover, and yes, I mean fascist and I'm not just using that word for its shock value, still trying to put the pieces together after a sitting President, for the first time in history, attempted a coup and used the power of his office to try and keep himself in that office after losing a legitimate election. The response to what has happened should not be to find a way to splinter support away from the party by criticizing a sitting President of the same party, and undermining all of the progress that has been made on top of all of the favorable political gifts that are sitting out there, waiting to be turned into enough votes to keep the house and senate majorities in Congress and make some much needed gains in state houses.
If people in this country are so politically fickle that they have forgotten, in less than two years, what a complete disaster the Trump administration was, and the incompetence and corruption that flooded out of it on a daily basis, then it's going to be much more difficult to try and hang on to this democracy in the face of an all-out fascist attempt to take it over than I thought it would be. Focusing on the 2024 presidential race is a distraction that, intentional or not, will take the focus off of the momentum-making issues that have actually made a nice dent in the enthusiasm "gap" Democrats were experiencing. That's why it's happening.
Whoever the Democratic nominee will be in 2024 is irrelevant. What is relevant is winning the mid-terms and keeping the party agenda on the table.
Starting a discussion about unhappy Democrats and speculation about who needs to run in 2024 is irresponsible journalism. But then, there might be some motivation on the media's part to try and distract and dent the momentum Democrats have picked up with the overturning of Roe and the gun control legislation, along with job growth reports which now indicate that employment has grown past the place it was in this country prior to COVID.
The Biden Administration is head and shoulders above any recent Republican administration in terms of achievement and accomplishment and equal to the Clinton and Obama administrations in all categories. Democrats and Independents who still believe in and support representative democracy better wake up now and see what's going on. These media attacks are perfectly timed distractions, and appear intended to erase the gains made by Democrats over the issues of the past year. This is the GOP's M.O. and has been for quite some time now. Joe Biden is experienced in and seasoned by partisan politics. He has surrounded himself with some of the best advisors in the Democratic party. He was legitimately elected and the vote count was accurate, not fraudulent. Don't allow that to be taken away from you by media speculation and attempts to improve ratings.
We have to write our own narrative, since we do not have a party propaganda outlet like Fox News. We need a historic turnout of Democratic voters in November to resolve the issues we face. You can help by spreading the truth, not lies. Get on board and elect some more Democrats everywhere.
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