President Joe Biden is not just unpopular: If you ask people, they will say he is doing nothing right.
A new CNN poll put Biden’s disapproval at 58%. The same number of people (41%) approve of his job as president (whether strongly or not) as those who strongly disapprove. In all, 57% say his first year in office was more of a failure than a success.
Most notably, the CNN poll asked respondents to name a single positive thing Biden has done since he became president, with 56% coming up absolutely blank. Even after a full year in the White House, a majority of people think Biden hasn’t even stumbled into something, anything, that helped the country. It’s been failures all the way down.
On top of it all, only 21% of people said they have confidence Biden can provide real leadership for the country. This is not exactly a surprise: Biden has treated his myriad of failures as something to be swept under the rug. He does his best to avoid any questions from anybody that would offer even mild pushback.
Inflation is rising at the fastest pace since 1982. Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal ended with 13 U.S. service members being killed by a suicide bomber and a retaliatory American drone strike that killed 10 civilians, including seven children. Biden promised to “shut down the virus,” but his administration continues to tell schools and states to keep children masked.
Biden has no good answers for anything. With yet another crisis brewing, as Russia threatens to invade Ukraine further, Biden claimed during a rare press conference that a “minor incursion” was no big deal. He has managed to botch every single major issue put on his plate, and everyone, from CNN poll respondents to Russian President Vladimir Putin, has noticed.
All in all, this isn’t much different than what everyone should have expected. Biden’s career has been one of failures and incompetence. No one should have expected him to guide the country through normal issues with a steady hand, let alone several foreign global crises and a pandemic.
As a country, we went from one divisive, celebrity-driven president in Barack Obama to another in Donald Trump. Then, voters chose to replace the old, often incompetent Trump with the older, even more incompetent (and equally divisive) Biden. Perhaps this can finally be the wake-up call for voters to choose candidates who treat the job seriously. They will still have a long three years to consider that prospect.
