Here is my full column that ran in the Washington County Daily News earlier this week:

Now that we are officially in a presidential election year and the Iowa Caucus looms, we can turn our attention to the campaign in earnest. It appears that we will be saddled with a rematch of Presidents Biden and Trump and the era of geriatric leadership will persist.

 

With an atrocious performance record and what appears to be an obvious history of corruption, Biden is determined to gaslight his way to re-election. He is going to try to convince the American people to trust his fiction instead of the observable obvious truth.

 

Biden’s first fiction is that the events of Jan. 6, 2021, was an insurrection. This fiction is key to Biden’s plan because it allows him to dehumanize Trump, specifically, and Republicans, generally. By othering Republicans, Biden relieves his supporters of the burden of respect and gives permission to win by any means necessary. The truth is that January 6 was a political rally and protest that spontaneously got out of control. The vast majority of the participants did not do anything other than exercise their 1st Amendment right to protest while a small minority got violent. An authentic and planned insurrection to topple our government would necessarily involve organization, the violent seizure of several organs of government, and an assumption of power by new leadership. Nobody has been accused, tried, or convicted of insurrection on January 6 because it was not an insurrection.

 

Biden is trying to convince Americans that January 6 was the most violent and deplorable riot in history, but Americans have been watching leftists disrupt governments burn down cities, and attack people for years. Biden does not care about our towns being burned down, but he desperately wants us to care about someone breaking a window in his town.

 

The second fiction is that the border is not a problem, or, if it is a problem, it is not his fault. Biden wants us to disregard the realities facing our communities as he is allowing millions of illegal aliens from all over the world to waltz across our border.

 

The truth is that Biden has intentionally opened our borders to the world. We have watched the videos throughout Biden’s term of thousands of illegal aliens crossing our borders. We have seen the news stories of illegal aliens overwhelming the welfare systems of massive cities like New York and Los Angeles. We have seen even small cities like Whitewater calling for help as hundreds of illegal aliens dumped in their communities drive up crime.

 

According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, they encountered over 3.2 million illegals in 2023. The vast majority were released into the interior of our country. Over 2 million of those were single adults – not families. Some 109,863 of them were from China or Russia. These are only the people that CBP encountered. It does not count the millions who go undetected.

 

We remember that the border was essentially secure at the end of Trump’s presidency, but Biden is trying to convince us to believe him instead of our own memories. He is trying to convince us that the damage he is inflicting on our nation and our communities by opening the borders is not happening.

 

Biden’s third fiction is that the economy is great and Bidenomics is working. The stock market has been doing well on the back of inflation and government spending. Much like the economy under President Obama, Wall Street and the rich are doing quite well as the lower and middle classes suffer.

 

The truth is that Biden’s policies and spending ballooned inflation to the highest level seen in over forty years. Under Biden, everything got more expensive including housing, vehicles, fuel, and everything else Americans need every day. To combat this, the Federal Reserve drove up interest rates, making the cost of credit cards, mortgages, and loans much higher. We are all spending more to get the same things and more of our incomes are going to just afford necessities.

 

We all see the results of Bidenomics in our lives every day. Our food is much more expensive. It costs more to fill up our cars. Those cars are more expensive. Houses are far more expensive and increasingly unattainable for the lower and middle classes. Rents are up. More Americans are spending down their savings or running up debt to maintain their standard of living and many more Americans are seeing a lower standard of living.

 

Biden wants us to believe that we are better off thanks to his economic policies and ignore the realities we see in our bank accounts every month. The Biden family has done quite well under Bidenomics. The rest of us? Not so much.

 

Biden dares not ask us if we are better off than we were four years ago.

 

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