By Post Editorial Board
It’s New Year’s Day, time to take stock of 2023 and consider what lies ahead for 2024 — and for President Biden, his grim past presages a harsh future in a reelection battle for the ages.
Biden took office with expectations high: He was the man who would return us to politics as usual after the disruptions of the Trump years.
He would oversee a period of healing and reconciliation and get the country back on the right track.
How’d that work out, Joe?
From his first days in the Oval Office, he pursued an agenda 100% driven by the most radical elements within his party.
On the border, the economy and foreign policy, he followed cues from online activists and insurgent hard-left electeds like AOC and Rashida Tlaib.
He imposed policies that have done this country grave harm and continues to mock and disparage anyone who dares to point out that this doddering emperor has no clothes.
The past year revealed, in all their full and ugly panoply, the consequences of Biden’s ignorant, arrogant philosophy (if you can call it that).
Consider the migrant crisis, which he and the open-borders enthusiasts in his Cabinet manufactured.
The past year was an utter catastrophe, as illegal migrants — including scores of names on the terror watchlist — streamed into the country.
The official tally for fiscal 2023 is 2.47 million encounters at the southern border (with at least 1.7 million “gotaways,” migrants seen but not apprehended, since 2021).
That doesn’t even begin to take into account those never spotted by CBP — or the 483,404 who have streamed in since the end of fiscal 2023.
The strain from these unprecedented influxes is overwhelming tiny towns at the border, trapping Americans in Mexico and straining the fiscal health of cities as far away as New York to the breaking point.
Yet Biden remains utterly indifferent, only offering bogus “action” like last week’s pointless Blinken-Mayorkas “mission to Mexico” that simply puffed the ego of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador while doing nothing to slow the illegal tide.
Then there’s the centerpiece of Biden’s re-election campaign, “Bidenomics.”
The president and his flunkeys in the press insist that Biden’s economic stewardship has somehow been good for average Americans, that it is building the economy “from the middle out and the bottom up.”
No: Prices are up 17.4% since Joe took office.
When you isolate key expenses, the picture’s even worse. Food is up 20.3%; rent is up 18.6%; electricity is up 24.3%.
