The current occupant of the White House has screwed up pretty much every policy he has touched, canceling his predecessor's and implementing his own. I believe the most insidious and intentional act by Joe Biden to damage the country he vowed to protect is erasing the nation's southern border.
And doing nothing to repair it.
Thousands of illegal immigrants cross over from Mexico every day, more than 8.2 million so far. And Biden's reign of error still has almost 14 months to go.
Menacingly, those swarms include at least 24,000 Chinese just so far this year alone. WTH are they crossing the Pacific to enter the U.S. back door for? And what is Biden getting for willfully allowing this illegal infiltration?
I'm betting Donald Trump's vow to launch a historic wave of deportation will be one of his strongest, if not the strongest, campaign promises in the upcoming Republican primaries and potentially in the ensuing general election campaign.
It won't be easy to do. You know that the Dems, who opposed his border barrier, will throw up every kind of legal and political obstacle they can. And compliant media will assist them by highlighting the awful hardships these folks are enduring due to their own decision to come without an invitation or legal documents.
The model is media's current coverage of the Hamas attack on Israel, focusing on the impact of Israel's military defense instead of Hamas' opening and ongoing aggression. It's a powerful example of why U.S. media's credibility has cratered in recent years.
I had a long, rewarding career in mainstream media, and its current operating condition is heartbreaking. It's also dangerous because a properly functioning democracy needs a reliable, common source of accurate information.
What we have now are multiple sources of sloppy information, most of which is shaped to fit an ideological agenda.
We've seen that all along now over the southern border issue. Media, which has valid constitutional protections for its role as government watchdog, has become, instead, government lapdog. No vigilance on Biden's border promises or failures, not to mention his failing mental faculties.
What we can do to improve the border situation and anticipate Democrat arguments to leave it open is the topic of this week's audio commentary
I was struck, looking at the unfolding presidential campaign for 2024, at the parallels with the 2020 version. Not just the identities of the two aging and current front-runners. But at the reversed roles of the incumbent and challenger and the baggage they have swapped.
The column is here.
The most recent audio commentary, in case you missed it, tried to examine the reasons behind Joe Biden's peculiar desire to do damaging deals with Iran, the world's most aggressive state sponsor of terror, and to do them by handing over billions upon billions of dollars for its bad behavior. Biden's mentor, Barack Obama, had a similar inexplicable and perverse compulsion.
At the editor's request, I've also been writing an occasional series of personal Memories. The latest one was posted here just this week. And at the end of it are links to all the others. They're not what you might expect at a site concentrated on politics and culture.
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