Unfinished Business: What Would a Second Biden Term Look Like?

What Might Lie Ahead?

Things aren't looking good for Joe Biden. Democrats, who are usually pretty good at circling the wagons, are starting to desert the Biden camp. His approval ratings are somewhere around the level of the Barents Abyssal Plain. He's trailing in all the battleground state polls, and both his recent debate performance against former President Trump and his post-NATO summit presser wavered from pathetic to embarrassing to horrifying.

He seems determined to stick this thing out. Part of his defiant outbursts, when he is questioned about the wisdom of his continued candidacy - or his continued service as president - always include some reference to "finishing what he started."

But what would a second Biden term look like? Turns out the old man has made some claims. Let's look at a few specifics translated from LibSpeak into English.

Immigration

His Department of Homeland Security would eventually resume construction on some barriers in 2023 amid a migrant surge. In 2024, Biden announced an executive order that severely limited crossings for asylum seekers, only to announce another order that offered deportation protections for undocumented spouses of US citizens weeks later.
That order allowed those immigrants to stay in the country and apply for lawful permanent residency, offering deportation protections for about 500,000 people.The migrants previously had to leave the United States to apply.
But if Trump regains a second term, he could easily erase those protections.

It's doubtful Trump would erase those specific protections, as it's actually a reasonable policy, allowing the spouses of American citizens to remain in the area. But rest assured, in a second Biden term, the borders would remain open, the influx would continue largely unchecked, and millions more would enter the country, unscreened, unvetted, to do who knows what. Literally on his first day, President Biden undid every Trump-era immigration policy he could, for no other reason than "Orange Man Bad," and it's unlikely in the extreme he would, at this point, re-adopt any Trump policy that worked.

Abortion

“If Americans send me a Congress that supports the right to choose, I promise you, I will restore Roe v. Wade as the law of the land again,” Biden said.

The Supreme Court put abortion where it belongs: With the states. There is no mention of abortion in the Constitution, therefore the federal government has no business making any laws or regulations on abortion. President Trump understands this, even if Joe Biden does not - not that Joe Biden has ever cared overly much about the Constitution.

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The Second Amendment

“I’m demanding a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines,” Biden said at his State of the Union address. “Pass universal background checks. None of this violates the Second Amendment or vilifies responsible gun owners.”

Joe Biden is of course free to demand in one hand and defecate in the other to see which hand fills up first. The country already has universal background checks - for buying from licensed dealers. What private citizens do with their private property is not the government's business, which civilized jurisdictions (like, I'm happy to say, Alaska) understand. Also, Joe Biden is pandering to the anti-gun crowd on "assault weapons." He cannot define the term in any meaningful way; neither can anyone else who is pushing for this nonsense. President Biden and others like to cite the 1994 "assault weapon ban" as an example, but that law was the very definition of a futile and stupid gesture. It did not ban anything; it instead banned accessories, such as flash hiders and bayonet lugs. The AR-15 platform rifles, just to name one, were still for sale everywhere, sans flash hiders and bayonet lugs. Also, there was no discernable effect on the number of criminal bayonetings in the United States.

What About the Man Himself?

And let's be honest: Joe Biden would never make it through a second term. At this juncture, it's unclear whether he'll make it to the election. Democrats are abandoning his campaign like rats leaving a sinking ship while his administration is rearranging that ship's deck chairs - with, we presume, Frau Doktor Professor Jill Biden directing the rearranging. The man himself is getting worse almost day by day while remaining defiant that he's in it to win it, and winning it looks less and less likely all the time.

And were he to gain reelection and take his second term, it's for sure and for certain that it would only be a matter of months, maybe weeks, before his final collapse put the execrable Kamala Harris at the Resolute Desk, the consequences of which don't bear contemplation. A second Biden term would quickly become the first Harris term, which would put the republic in an unenviable world of hurt. The United States is already badly diminished by four years of the hapless Joe Biden; a term with Kamala Harris at the levers of power may very well, as old Joe himself might put it, "finish the job."

In November, we have a chance to turn that around. Think carefully, friends.

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