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   The same man who said that “unity is our greatest strength” in a   
   video marking the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001,   
   terrorist attacks turns around and points fingers at his   
   political adversaries, leads a party whose congressional leaders   
   are hankering to transform America, and oversees a Justice   
   Department that seems to open another investigation into GOP   
   state governments on each day that ends in “y.”   
      
   This administration’s haplessness and buck-passing touch every   
   issue. Biden dismantled the Trump administration’s border-   
   security protocols and found himself unable to stanch record   
   numbers of illegal crossings on the southern border. He   
   delegated the border crisis to Vice President Kamala Harris,   
   whose search for the “root causes” behind the surge in illegal   
   immigration has taken her to Guatemala and Mexico and El Paso,   
   but not anywhere close to a solution. Biden’s proposal to curb   
   the rise in violent crime is to make it harder for law-abiding   
   citizens to possess firearms—a non sequitur masquerading as   
   action. Biden claims that inflation will subside when Congress   
   passes his several-trillion-dollar spending plans and tax hikes,   
   and OPEC gives in to his pleas to boost energy production. It’s   
   hard to decide which is more shocking: His economic illiteracy   
   or his willingness to return the United States to dependence on   
   foreign oil.   
      
   Biden blamed Trump for an Afghan withdrawal deadline that he   
   alone altered twice. Then he scolded the Afghan defense forces   
   for melting away once he removed the close air support that the   
   United States had provided for decades. Biden said that he   
   withdrew U.S. forces from Afghanistan to protect the lives of   
   U.S. troops. But more soldiers died in the August 26 attack at   
   Kabul Airport than in any single day in Afghanistan since 2011.   
   Biden said that despite our departure the United States will be   
   able to combat al-Qaeda and ISIS in Afghanistan through an “over-   
   the-horizon” counterterrorism capability. But that horizon is   
   far, far away: America has no bases in Central Asia, and   
   Afghanistan is a landlocked nation surrounded by our enemies.   
   Biden said that he wants to focus on competition with China. He   
   hasn’t backed up his strident rhetoric with action.   
      
   Biden declared our “independence” from the coronavirus on July   
   Fourth. Then he spent two and a half months dithering as the   
   Delta wave spread havoc in the Southeast and Midwest. He went   
   after governors who banned school mask mandates, but he didn’t   
   announce a major slate of proposals to increase vaccinations and   
   mitigate Delta until September 9—by which time the summer wave   
   had peaked. Mr. Unity has yet to “shut down the virus” as   
   promised. But he has given Americans plenty of additional things   
   to fight over and complain about. “There’s little doubt that the   
   honeymoon is over for Biden,” election analyst Amy Walter of the   
   Cook Political Report wrote recently. “The question now is if   
   voters are still going to be happy in the marriage come next   
   year.”   
      
   Happy? At this rate, they’ll be filing for divorce.   
      
   https://www.commentary.org/articles/matthew-continetti/biden-   
   incompetent-leader/   
      
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