He doesn’t work for the voters, he works for the Left.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
The new New York Times poll is bad news for Biden and bad for America.
It’s not just the 33% approval rating that’s truly worrying. Biden has hit a new polling low, but he hits new polling lows every week. 70% of Democrats still claim to approve of Biden, much as they would a diseased cat, the propped up corpse of Osama bin Laden, or small piece of dried spaghetti as long as it was a Democrat. But only a quarter of the party wants Biden to run again.
Biden’s few remaining brain cells aren’t worried about the 2024 election. They’re worried about the Democrat primaries that he barely survived last time around. And isn’t likely to this time.
64% of Democrats want someone, anyone, other than Biden to run in 2024.
As Biden’s poll numbers have slid down the slopes faster than a falling skier, he hasn’t moved to the center, but to the fringes. Like most of his party, the primary threat comes from the Left. And the more unpopular Biden becomes, the harder he pivots leftward to protect his primary options.
Even if they’re mostly imaginary.
That’s why the poor poll numbers are nothing to celebrate. Biden pretended to run from the center, but never governed from the center. And his growing unpopularity has only made his administration more extreme. Biden doesn’t need America and doesn’t have it anyway.
He needs the Left.
Leftists and Americans wanted opposite things from the Biden administration. Americans wanted stability, sensible policies and an end to the chaos. Leftists wanted endless spending on their agendas, identity politics and a perpetual state of crisis. Biden took office in a locked down city with a heavily military presence, appointed an attorney general bitter at having a Supreme Court seat taken from him and tasked with pursuing partisan grievances. Gargantuan spending bills aggravated the already unstable economy and pushed the country to the brink.
Everything else followed from that.
Biden locked his administration into a leftist worldview that alienated most of the country. The more the rest of the country shuns him, the harder he clings to the “one that brought” him.
Barack Obama.
Biden isn’t popular, but he never was. He first got to the White House riding leftist coattails. He certainly wasn’t elected based on his own popularity, but because the Left waged a scorched earth campaign. The only reason someone so corrupt and inept ever ended up in the White House was as a beneficiary of the outpouring of rabid leftist hatred against conservatives.
The 2020 strategy of lying low and letting the Left rage got him in the White House. And Biden knows that his only shot of getting back in is once again letting the Left do its worst.
Biden’s national poll numbers don’t matter because he didn’t win a popularity contest.
It doesn’t matter if he’s at 41% or 33% or 6%. Biden’s gambit will be once again lying low and letting the Left shape the battlefield. Faced with the likelihood of being a one-termer, his staffers are leftists who aren’t in it for the money or the career development, but are true believers in the “cause”. And he needs leftist donors who aren’t invested in personalities, but in ideology.
Much like Xi, Biden understands that the ‘party’ matters and the public doesn’t. And ‘party’ doesn’t mean the official one with a donkey on the box, but the ideological leftist movement that cares about the things he’s vigorously promoting from critical race theory to gender identity to modern monetary theory and all the theories that in their sum add up to Marxist theory.
Joe Biden likely doesn’t believe any of it, but just as Hunter didn’t have to read Mao’s Little Red Book to cut business deals in China, Biden doesn’t have to understand what he’s promoting.
Biden came into office after outsourcing much of his administration’s policy apparatus to the Bernie and Warren people. The “Big Guy” doesn’t care much about policy. Biden has been anti and pro-abortion, pro and anti-terrorism, and pro and anti-racism depending on the moment.
What Biden cares about is having the big job and whatever benefits flow from it. An egomaniac who kept on lying about his college grades while running for president, he accidentally landed in a position commensurate with his inflated self-image. And one that offers plenty of rewards.
Much as Hillary, another compulsive liar, wrecked her own party and then the country while trying to cling to power no one thought she should have, Biden, even in his diminished state, is not going to let go. In that, Biden is no different than the rest of a gerontocratic oligarchy, men and women like Speaker Pelosi and Senator Bernie Sanders, claiming to speak for the youth.
After generations in power, none of them are eager to let go and accept the inevitable. Especially since the inevitable is no longer as inevitable as it once used to be.
It’s inevitable to most that Biden won’t run and won’t win if he does. And in the normal state of things, that would be true. But we are in a post-polling world in which public opinion is no longer just a reaction to events, but can be directly shaped by manufacturing a series of crises.
And if Biden works hard enough for the Left, perhaps the Left will work to keep him in office.
Some race riots, lockdowns, and crises yet to be unleashed can do wonders for changing people’s perspective. It likely won’t work and may not even be tried, but Biden doesn’t have any other cards to play. And he never did. Biden can’t win elections on his own. So he won’t try.
The more unpopular he becomes, the less likely he is to even bother going through the motions.
Biden may sit in the White House (when he’s not vacationing in Delaware), but he doesn’t work for the American people. He works for the Left. And he may not remember much of anything else, but that is the one thing he has never forgotten. It’s the only reason why he’s here.
wpm says
His handlers are using a senile old man to help their agenda they already know he will not run in 2024.The progressives want the general public to be in consent fear ,giving the government more power to control their daily lives. The progressives want shortages of common goods food, energy ,they want races wars ,and riots. How much dirt and who has it do they have on the Biden crime family they can use to blackmail him? The MSM can not even cover for him anymore. What I would do to see just mean tweets and put up with the super ego Trump at least we had some stability with a leader who put the interest of the common American before job killing green new deal and anti-family transex-mafia crap force on young children.
VarAway says
Chapeau👍
The very BEST article ever written about the Biden Crime Family.
Deadly and to the point!
Keep them coming Sir🙏
mortimer says
Biden was carried across the finish line on a stretcher by the DNC and Big Tech operatives who rigged the voting machines and stuffed the drop boxes using ‘mules’, so the Dems believe they can cheat again.
They couldn’t care less if Biden is senile, because they are only interested in power for its own sake. The actual agenda is unimportant … their only real agenda is power.
They feel that no one has a right to rule but them … to hell with what the majority of the people want.
mortimer says
Daniel Greenfield observes: “The more unpopular he becomes, the less likely he is to even bother going through the motions.”
Indeed so. But Biden hasn’t the energy required to engage in a campaign. Even last time, his wife and other handlers were pumping him up with dangerous pep pills before major events like debates and one-to-one interviews.
Just look at Biden’s tragic interview with Don Lemon (the ‘man in the moon’ interview) and you will clearly see that Biden is pumped on uppers.
Such drugs may in future cause a health catastrophe for him. He obviously would not pass a cognitive ability test and that’s why they will not allow him to undergo one.
James Lincoln says
mortimer says.
“He obviously would not pass a cognitive ability test and that’s why they will not allow him to undergo one.”
True.
He definitely would NOT pass a standard MoCA cognitive assessment test.
Not performing the test is definitely malpractice – but it’s not being done because the failed results would then have to be addressed…
Phil Copson says
“….Biden may sit in the White House (when he’s not vacationing in Delaware), but he doesn’t work for the American people. He works for the Left. And he may not remember much of anything else, but that is the one thing he has never forgotten. It’s the only reason why he’s here….”
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Biden on his first actions after being elected Senator for Delaware: “I went to the Big Guys for the money – I was ready to prostitute myself…”
Biden on how he abused his position as Obama’s VP to block an investigation into Ukrainian energy company Burisma’s payments to Hunter Biden: “I said…you’re not getting the billion dollars….if the prosecutor’s not fired – you’re not getting the money: Well – son of a bitch – he got fired!”
Biden may now be “working for the Left” – (especially if you include Communist China amongst “the Left”…) – but history appears to show that he has always been ready, willing, and eager to work for anyone who waves a cheque-book in his general direction.
His guiding principle has always been: “What lie do I have to tell to get my hands on the money?” and the number and variety of them have been truly astounding – from his early days cheating in law examinations, lying about where he came in his class, and how many degrees he held – via Walter Mitty-ish claims about appointments he’s held, legislation he’s introduced, how he liaised with Israeli PM Golda Meir (he was still in college at that time), has been under fire, armed himself with a length of rusty chain in readiness for a fight with a local gangster, driven 18-wheelers – right through to his recent claims that America has lower inflation than the rest of the world / that fuel shortages are caused by Vladimir Putin / that inflation is caused by greedy suppliers from US energy companies right down to the local filling-station / and that it was he, and not Donald Trump, who tackled Covid / laid down the law to Putin and Iran / defeated ISIS etc. (Any day soon, he’ll tell the world how it was he who made the first moon-landing / carried-out the world’s first heart transplant / assassinated Suleimani / and sang all of Elvis’s hits…)
FJB is genuinely proud of how well he has succeeded in profiting from 50 years of selling-out his office, and – (since nobody has ever held him to account, and experience taught him that the more he lied – the richer he got…) – evidently came to think that corruption was the actual job that he was there to do, and likes to boast about his prowess.
somehistory says
that pretty much sums up joe biden. He deserves not the name Joseph. More deserving of lucifer.
Don McKellar says
It’s crazy to look back on all the corruption, racism, massive deception, and straight up evil that Biden has ridden on his entire political career. But that’s nothing compared to when you read all the times he sticks his foot in his mouth and lays it all out and admits to it all. And somehow he keeps bobbing up onto the surface, like an unsinkable rubber ducky. It truly is enough to wonder if he has sold his soul to the devil. It seems impossible to explain otherwise.
somehistory says
It’s very much like a Twilight Zone episode where no matter what the guy does, he succeeds because he made a “bargain.’ Like the guy who even murdered, but was not going to die because that was his ‘bargain,’ but then found himself going to prison for the rest of his life…and he ended it.
biden seems to have made a similar bargain. No matter what he does, he just keeps on going.
James Lincoln says
Phil,
It is likely that Joe Biden will never have to answer for his crimes.
In the future, if he is ever charged, he will likely be found “cognitively incompetent” to stand trial.
Hoi Polloi says
Seems their strategy. Load the front lines and reward for their service to entities that fully purchased them all those who are too aged to effectively prosecute.
Wellington says
An article by Daniel Greenfield that is true throughout. Yes, Biden is a complete jerk but he still has two and a half years to ruin America. What a loathsome man.
somehistory says
It’s always been a failure to begin talking about a second term before the first one gets off the ground. It shows that the “promises” were only words to get elected without any care to follow through, because re-election is the goal…gotta’ have a “legacy” and be written about as a two-term president.
this admin…or lack thereof…never will get off the ground. and anyone saying they “approve” of what bobiden is doing, is either lying or is in favor of complete destruction…the “fundamental change” “bo” said he was going to bring about.
Most of us know by now that biden says what he is told to say…even to the reading of the directions of how often to repeat a sentence or where to stand and from whom to take questions.
‘Ms Cbs person, let me see what is your name? What is your question? Okay, nance? I can take a question; I hope I don’t get in trouble. what’s your question, mr. rather or is it cronkite?”
“what kind of ice cream did you have last night, mr. resident?”
and his white house press person is no better at knowing what to say without reading it off a paper.
Armageddon is in the near future, believe it or not.
Don McKellar says
He’s the first unelected “president”, so this is no surprise.
The great acceleration in left-fascist lunacy comes because his controllers are now certain that the midterm elections will take away likely both houses, and at least Congress guaranteed. Their sock puppet will be blocked at every turn and have much diminished power. They’ve got to get as much damage in as they can.
CogitoErgoSum says
Joe’s secret weapon is that he’s going to cure cancer. Didn’t he say he was going to find a cure for cancer? He said it was one of the reasons he ran for President. He was going to do it if he was elected. I’m sure I heard him say that. Haven’t heard him talking about it lately but I’m sure he has his dogs working on … because he said dogs were going to help cure cancer because they can smell it. Not a joke. Yeah, if his dogs really do find a cure for cancer in the next couple years I’ll consider getting out the entire cemetery to vote for him next time.
somehistory says
Dogs can smell some diseases and warn their owners of some health issues about to happen, such as an epileptic seizure. but, I doubt that a person of such demented mind…he evidently began life with a dementedly criminal, psychopathic mind…could ever solve or cure anything.
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, I’ve seen that dogs can smell cancer and early detection of cancer is important but smelling cancer and curing it are two different things. I just wish Joe’s brain was as useful as a dog’s nose.
somehistory says
I agree totally. It began with severely limited ability.
gravenimage says
+1
tgusa says
I have a cat that would not stop sitting on my leg no matter where I was. I thought at the time, what the heck? Not long after I found out I needed a stint put in an artery in my leg. I should have paid more attention to him.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that account, tgusa. Glad this was caught in time.
Cats and dogs are often pretty amazing.
tgusa says
Welcome. He is a cat that I brought in from a rainstorm when I saw him swallowing a mouse in my backyard. I suspected at the time that he had run away from abuse. He wasn’t a bird killer as the left would portray him. He brought me many presents over the years, rats, and that is in not rat infested and coyote lurking areas. You have to be pretty smart to accomplish all that.
Never before in his long life was a he a lap cat, not even close. But there he was, doing what he was doing. Yes, pretty weird.
tgusa says
I’m a dog lover and owner but owner doesn’t describe it. Owner seems to be the wrong label for my (friend?) but dogs are for bigger problems. Cats, every cat to differing degrees, hate and will kill anything that crawls or looks to crawl on the ground. That would be when you I and the dog are sleeping. So, the two of them make a great team. Its not one or the other, its all of us, together.
tgusa says
Cats are not immune to scorpion stings and dogs aren’t either. They both will feel pain and get very ill depending on the species of the scorpion.
Cats will stick around and kill their antagonist. Dogs will run away.
Cats are unlikely to get stung because cats are fast.Cat fur also defends against bites or stings.
If a cat is bitten by a venomous snake like a cobra or rattlesnake, it can survive 8 to 12 hours without any medical attention. Just to say, not so with a dog.
Ade Fegan says
Typo ?
Shouldn’t that read :
“The More Radical He Gets, the More Unpopular Biden Becomes”
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
First, Biden has awful judgement because is feeble-minded and totally unfit to be the President of the United States of America.
Second, Biden with his Red/ Green alliance is very pro-Islamic and treacherous and treasonous to America in spirit and in action. This he has proven many times over, by his words, Marxist associate’s mullah friend’s along with his awful political politics and policies.
Biden and administration is a disaster for America and the American people.
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden isn’t really changing his colors ,what Biden is doing is gradually showing his true colors
That is from “pink” ,socialism to “Red ” Communism.
libertyORdeath says
Does any of this really matter if the fact that Biden was NEVER elected is acknowledged? If they could “defeat” a popular sitting president who got more votes than any other sitting president in HISTORY by propping up a political corpse in a basement, then they probably believe that they can do it again, right?
We should always remember that the leftist agenda WAS NEVER POPULAR with the American people. 75+% of voters opposed the “defund the police” agenda. 75%+ of voters believe that voter id is necessary for secure elections. Similar numbers also oppose open borders, the war in Ukraine, child grooming and CRT in schools, soft on China policies, the green new deal, 2nd amendment restrictions, and the list goes on. Yet despite these objections from voters, we’re supposed to believe that a husk like Joe Biden, backed by the same leftist policies that a large majority of Americans HATE, was able to set a record at over 81 MILLION votes?
If we think negative polling is either a positive or negative for conservatism then I think we’re missing the bigger picture. Just ask the people in Russia, or Venezuela or even Canada if opposition to government policies can be defeated by mobilizing voters. I’m sure that most of them would simply laugh. If we hope to right this ship here in America and in the wider western world then election integrity must be the paramount issue.
This isn’t a question about poll numbers or ideological support…it’s about the takeover of our government and our economy. The globalists don’t care if you hate their anti-Human policies because they have the money and base to make your opinions void. This is done by employing taxpayer funded NGOs to carry out voter fraud on a massive scale. See the evidence from True the Vote to see how it was done.
https://www.truethevote.org/news/
If we continue to blindly believe in our formerly trustworthy voting infrastructure then we are fools. If we allow swing states and big cities to be staffed entirely by left wing election officials then we will never see a fair election again. Forget the poll numbers and what you think it says about the next election…2020 showed us that they will stop at nothing to advance the leftist/globalist/deep-state agenda. There are over 23 MILLION employees working for the government and the deep-state just keeps adding more. Add these people who rely on the government for their livelihood to those on welfare and the dedicated leftists and you have at least 50 MILLION Americans who are indebted to the deep-state that we seek to defeat. Keep thinking that these people who support their families with government checks will decide to side with the Constitution over their paycheck. It’s gonna take more than a 250 year old piece of vellum to get those people to defend freedom over their own interests. We will get a good idea of the plan in the next 2 elections, but at this point I’m not holding my breath.
“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”
– Joseph Stalin
Hoi Polloi says
Good article and comments. Biden and those he’s fronting for seem to enjoy racing to the bottom. New lower lows every day with these monsters. Barry, we see you.
Infidel says
I don’t think Biden works for anybody! I think that his blind ambition was simply to become president, and then just let the Left drive his administration wherever it liked, while he goes and “puts a lid” on things any time he likes
tgusa says
Joe’s wife Jill has to follow him around to make sure he doesn’t eat any snails out of the garden. I don’t know who is calling the shots but it isn’t Joe.
gravenimage says
The More Unpopular He Gets, the More Radical Biden Becomes
……………………………
Spot on.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Obama got one thing right when he stated,
“Never underestimate Joe’s ability to screw
things up.”
Hoi Polloi says
Says everything about BHO that he selected, ran background operations through, and then set up a third term behind Biden.