USA – Biden meets the wall

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No president in modern times has had a meltdown in the polls as dramatic as Biden has this summer. It is almost free fall. It is also worth noting that a survey by Harvard-Harris shows that 48 percent of voters prefer Donald Trump, over 46 percent for Biden. Especially in tipping states, it tilts the most in The Donald’s favor, the figures show. This does not bode well for the by-elections in just a little over a year, an election which, with these figures, is likely to result in a Republican majority in both houses of Congress. And thus almost impossible working conditions for Biden.

It is both foreign policy and domestic political defeats Biden now faces. The delta variant of the coronavirus kills again among the unvaccinated in the United States. And even though Biden has been the president of the vaccine, the epidemic is now affecting him, as the person responsible – also for the lives of unvaccinated Republicans who have made medicine a matter of political confession. And last week, an announced police reform – which had wind in its sails due to the assassination of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement – was halted in Congress. This week could be crucial to whether Biden gets through its counter-cyclical policies, and could be a Franklin D. Roosevelt for our time. Or if he risks a failure.

Mocked after strange attack

Biden’s reputation as a wizard who with diplomatic abilities can twist his way through the wanderings in both the Senate and in the House of Representatives, has received a powerful shot in the arm. The same goes for his reputation as the experienced foreign politician who is one of those in Washington who knows the world best. The withdrawal from Afghanistan was not just a political disaster, it was a public relations disaster that was as humiliating for the United States as Vietnam in 1975. 20 years of war proved to be a waste.

The congresswoman is shocked: – No longer serious

This month’s news of the decision to start confronting China’s expansion in Asia also raises doubts about Biden’s relationship to multilateralism. The ballpark of the United States’ close ally France when Australia scrapped a major submarine contract with France, and instead signed a contract with the United States and Britain, will not go down in the textbooks as diplomatic statesman art. In his speech to the UN last week, Biden promised that “ruthless wars” would now be replaced by the United States’ “ruthless diplomacy”. Was it using diplomacy again, again, and again, Biden meant by the term, as many thought, or did it mean ruthless diplomacy instead of going behind the backs of close allies? The world stood and watched in justified wonder.

Biden’s most important contribution to the history of the United States was to stop Donald Trump from continuing as President of the United States. He did it. But that alone does not make him a great president.

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