History Is Not Always Kind

This week marks the third anniversary of Joe Biden's disastrous debacle that surrounded his withdrawal and abandonment of Afghanistan to the Taliban.

Do you remember the headlines?

Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/16/taliban-takes-afghanistan-kabul-airport-last-stand-u-s/8147419002/

Source: https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/chaos-desperation-at-kabul-airport-as-biden-defends-withdrawal-from-afghanistan/

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/08/27/us-service-members-killed-kabul-airport-names/

The meme below takes us back to that same week in history to remind us of how things were on other fronts three years ago.

What happened, indeed.

This isn't half of it.

This was also all before we ended up with mandates for a vaccine that did not work as advertised, collusion between government and media companies to censor and silence free speech that did not conform to an approved narrative and a fully weaponized Department of Justice was turned lose on political opponents that prompted Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) to make this remark this week.

Of course,  this weaponization has just not been deployed against Trump.

It has also included parents who spoke at School Board meetings who opposed school shutdowns, doctors who advocated alternative Covid treatments and grandmothers who walked into the Capital on January 6 after being waved through the doors by the Capital Hill police.

Seeing where we were three years ago and where we are today you would think that the people running all of this would be feeling some heat.

You would think that even a few true believers in Biden's own party might be having some doubts about Biden's proficiency and performance. 

You would be wrong.

Believe it or not, Joe Biden actually has a higher approval rating with Democrats right now than Barack Obama did at the same time in his Presidency.

The most recent Gallup poll shows that Joe Biden has an 86% approval rating with Democrats.

Source: https://news.gallup.com/interactives/507569/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx

Barack Obama only had a 77% approval rating with Democrats at the same time in his first term.

Source: https://news.gallup.com/interactives/507569/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx

That is a little sobering to consider, isn't it?

Democrats are clearly very pleased with Joe Biden. 

They apparently were not as enthralled with Obama's attempts at sweet talking or trying to pretend he was playing to the middle.

Democrats appear to be more than pleased with Biden's "ram it down their throats" style of politics and don't see the need to make any apologies for it.

Give us what we want with executive orders.

The hell with compromise with Republicans in Congress.

Let's threaten to prosecute everybody that does not agree with us.

Make no mistake. Not every voter is buying what they are seeing. Joe Biden has problems when he gets beyond the party faithful.

Joe Biden is sitting at a 40% overall approval rating in the latest Gallup poll with all adults.

This is due to a 38% rating from Independents and and a meager 2% from Republicans.

Source: https://news.gallup.com/interactives/507569/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx

However, this overall approval rating only trails Obama by 2 points at the same time in the first term of each in the Gallup poll.

Source: https://news.gallup.com/interactives/507569/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx

 

In the Rasmussen Presidential daily tracking poll, Obama had a 43% approval rating on August 17, 2011 (just slightly less than three years into his first term).

Biden is at 45% approval at the same point in his Presidency in the Rasmussen poll today.

Trump was at 46% approval at the same time.

Source: https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/biden_administration/prez_track_aug17

Yes, it is hard to believe that Joe Biden has a higher approval right now than Barack Obama did considering what has been unleashed in the last three years.

Obama recovered in the polls to win another term. History has been kind to him. Will that always be true?

History is not always kind.

When all of this plays out it is not going to be kind to someone.

History is either not going to be kind to the United States of America due to leaders with records like Joe Biden being left in office.

Or history is not going to be kind to those who have seen all that this man has done in his three years in office and yet still blindly approve of what he is doing.

Perhaps both.

We are living in a very dangerous and consequential time in history.

And history is not always kind.