Posted on 10/23/2021 2:10:20 PM PDT by algore
When Joe Biden huddled with a group of historians in March, the conversation revolved around thinking big like one of his predecessors, Franklin Roosevelt, architect of the New Deal. Biden, it seemed, wanted to join him in the first rank of transformational US presidents.
Six months later, a very different gathering took place this week outside the White House gates. Five young climate activists, holding signs and sitting on folding chairs, began an indefinite hunger strike. It was a visceral expression of disgust at what they see as Biden’s willingness to think small and break his promises.
“Young people turned out in record numbers to elect him on his climate commitments,” said Nikayla Jefferson, 24, an activist helping the quietly determined hunger strikers on the edge of Lafayette Park. “But over this past month he’s almost given up. He’s not being a leader in this moment in the way that we need him to deliver.”
A growing sense of betrayal is shared by campaigners for everything from gun rights to immigration reform, from racial justice to voting rights, who saw Democrats’ governing majority as a once-in-a-generation opportunity. Instead party infighting has put Biden’s agenda in jeopardy and could result in voter disillusionment in next year’s midterm elections.
The 46th president came into office promising to attack four crises – coronavirus, climate, economy and racial justice – but has seen his approval rating sink to 42% after colliding with some harsh political and economic realities.
These include tepid jobs growth, labour strikes, rising inflation and petrol prices, logjams in the global supply chain, a record number of arrests at the US-Mexico border and a botched withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan that raised unexpected questions about his competence.
Even routine business, such as appointing an ambassador to Japan, appears jinxed:
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I guess everyone except Barack underestimated his ability to brandon things up
Deliver on what?
Biden never said one tangible thing.
Biden was successful in “attacking” the economy and that’s a fact!
He already did. They got almost everything they voted for.
sense of betrayal is shared by campaigners for everything from gun rights to immigration reform,
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People interested in gun rights did not vote for the meat puppet.
People interested in real immigration reform, removing illegal aliens and restoring the rule of law, did not vote for the meat puppet.
He is delivering... for Soros and the Chinese.
Elections have consequences. He’s doing everything I expected. Not sure what they were hallucinating.
We've already seen the Xiden regime's priorities and it includes open borders and freebies for illegal aliens over freebies for shiftless hippies.
Now he has a real dilemma of how to get people to work and pay taxes now that he has made it so easy to not work and sponge off taxpayers.
I guess he’s not destroying capitalism, religion and family fast enough for them.
Biden has the reverse Midas touch. Everything he touches turns to sh.., er, brandon.
Five climate activists starving themselves to death? I call that a good start.
Biden has Delivered a new “610 Office” at the DO”J”
to harass, arrest, threaten, rape and kill if necessary,
remove the organs from, and sell as slaves,
any American who is white, who is conservative,
who is heterosexual, or who will not pay Garland’s family
to continue their TREASON.
If only we could get everyone who thinks CO2 is a dangerous pollutant to stop exhaling it.
Deliver? 🍕🍚
Five climate activists..
Poor Clueless Joe is wrecking the country as fast as he can! They need to make some allowance for the fact that he’s demented and deviant.
He ran as a moderate.
I think his approval rating is much lower than that.
Even many of his voters have buyer’s remorse.
Joe is going to deliver..deliver us to the chinese
He has done a bang-up job on attacking the economy!
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