He proved incapable of meeting the challenges, but you can’t claim he inherited a strong United States and made it weak.

Not so Joe Biden. Trump blew the COVID crisis, but in the main, he left the United States much stronger at home and abroad than any president in decades. Trump actually left the US in its best international position in decades, despite the efforts of the elite at home and abroad to undermine him.

So Slow Joe came into office with a country poised to improve on an already strong position and threw the opportunity away. He declared that Milton Friedman wasn’t in charge anymore, and we got inflation unseen in decades. He withdrew from Afghanistan, embarrassing the US with a disaster worse than Libya’s collapse into a failed state under Obama. His Afghanistan embarrassment contributed to Russia’s adventurism in Ukraine. He opened our border to uncounted millions of illegal immigrants, destabilizing us at home. He embraced CRT and alphabet ideology.

Don’t forget mortgage rates above 8%. So far.

And now his pussyfooting with Iran has given us a raging war in the Middle East.

As I wrote earlier today, the State Department is now warning all Americans abroad that they are at risk merely for being Americans. Be on the lookout, Americans, you are a target.

Worldwide Caution: Due to increased tensions in various locations around the world, the potential for terrorist attacks, demonstrations or violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests, the Department of State @StateDept advises U.S. citizens overseas to exercise increased… pic.twitter.com/waIpqmWu2m

— Travel – State Dept (@TravelGov) October 19, 2023

Americans are noticing, and don’t like what they see.

Despite the majority of Americans having at least some distaste for Donald Trump, chances that he or another Republican will be elected next year are growing by the day.

Bloomberg Battleground poll.

Trump leads 47% to 43% across 7 swing states.

Trump/Biden are tied in Michigan & Biden leads in Nevada.

According to Bloomberg Polling, Trump has a lead in AZ, GA, NC, PA, & WI. pic.twitter.com/8uCY9q2qNI

— David D. Chapman (@davidchapman141) October 19, 2023

It’s too early to predict who will win in November, or even who will be on the ballot when the candidates are an octagenarian vs a septuagenarian at this stage of the game, but one thing is clear: Biden is in deep trouble, and it isn’t too early to at least write a draft of his political obituary.

Whatever you think of Trump as a human being, it is difficult for anybody to argue that if he were still president the United States would be better off economically and on the world stage. We would be arguing about mean tweets and nonexistent threats to democracy, but not about terrorist threats to democracy, illegal aliens flooding across the border, and multiple wars around the world.

Partisan Democrats would be seething and our media would be screaming about “Lies!!” and “Russia Russia Russia,” but they would be doing so in a safer world.

I deeply hope that DeSantis is on the ballot next year and not Trump because DeSantis is the most competent manager in the country. He wouldn’t spend his days attacking his own picks for key spots in the Administration, and he has a proven track record of not just talking about draining a swamp, but actually doing so.

But if necessary I will take Trump. His record, as marred as it was by self-owns, is actually pretty good. At this point, it seems likely that even people who dislike Trump the man understand that Biden is worse.

Biden is likely to go down in history as corrupt, abusive of his power, incompetent, and a genuine danger both domestically and internationally. He has been a human wrecking ball, weakening the country.

Americans are waking up to this fact.

That old question: “Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?” packs as much punch today as in 1980. And it likely spells the doom for Biden.