The President of the United States is not good! In the year of taking office, only 25% of the public was satisfied with Biden's performance

China News Network, January 20 (Meng Xiangjun) The epidemic is facing a dangerous winter, democracy is fragile, and society is torn apart... That's how Biden, 79, described the United States a year ago at the president's swearing-in ceremony. He had ambitions to make the United States "once again a beacon in the world."

A year later, Biden has entered his old age, his age has grown, and his approval rating has fallen; the United States, still the United States in Biden's mouth, is even more "dangerous, fragile and torn."

[Immigration Issues: From "Savior" to "Broken Dreams"】

"America is back"! In 2021, as a veteran of the Obama administration, Biden, who took office at the beginning of his presidency, announced his political ambitions to the world with 57% approval.

Return to the Paris Agreement and WHO, launch massive infrastructure, economic relief and anti-epidemic plans to try to repair relations with allies... The Biden administration's "three fires" seem to have burned smoothly.

However, the New Deal is not just about canvassing votes and showing a more amiable and responsible "magic show" than its predecessor. It is precisely because the Biden administration criticized the Inhumanity of "putting children in cages" during the Trump era and announced the relaxation of immigration policies, which has ignited hope for Central and South American immigrants.

They trekked day and night, breaking through Mexican police lines, and even uniformly wore T-shirts with the slogan "Biden, please let us in" and waited at the U.S.-Mexico border. However, they have waited for the arrest, isolation and repatriation, including many women and children.

The U.S. president, who is seen as hope by immigrants, says he "doesn't have time" to go to the border to solve the problem.

A year later, the "American Dream" of 1.7 million immigrants is nowhere to be found, and the worst U.S.-Mexico border crisis in 20 years is still fermenting.

In the United States, although Biden signed the Anti-COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which was dubbed the "ugly poison that tormented America", the "hate crimes" against the Asian community increased by 361% in one year, setting a new high.

Whether black, Latino or younger, women, polls show that the president's approval ratings among all groups have declined over the past year.

[Afghan Withdrawal: From Support to 'Shame']

If immigration and ethnicity are just signs, the first significant decline in Biden's approval ratings was accompanied by the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

Images of Afghans falling from U.S. military planes in the air were repeated in the media of various countries. This not only reflects the failure of a superpower after 20 years of overseas conquest, but also becomes ironclad evidence that the country, which prides itself on being a "beacon of human rights", is taking human life.

Although more than half of the Americans support the withdrawal, the political arena and the public do not seem to expect that such a withdrawal method has nailed the United States to the "column of shame".

Biden's approval rating was still above 50 percent when the U.S. announced its withdrawal decision in April, but by the time the withdrawal was completed in September, Biden's approval rating had fallen to 43 percent, more than any U.S. president since World War II.

[Responding to the epidemic: from hope to despair]

The US media pointed out that one of the most dissatisfied Biden policies of the American people is the fight against the epidemic. In the 100 days in office, Biden has completed the "small goal" of giving people 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, bringing some hope. But the good times were not long, and the "big tsunami" of the epidemic was wave after wave, which made the United States breathless.

From summer to autumn, the Delta mutation invaded the United States, starting with 100,000 new confirmed cases in a single day, and months of anti-epidemic efforts were wiped out. The scene in which Biden announced at the White House in May that "today is a good day for the United States" can not wear a mask has also been repeatedly criticized.

This is not the "darkest hour" - the flying of the Omicron mutant strain has allowed the United States to experience a more peak of heart-pounding, and the daily increase in confirmed cases has soared to the million level. As Mr. Fodge, Biden's chief medical adviser, put it, the U.S. pandemic curve is "growing almost vertically as never before."

But whether congress is meeting or celebrating Independence Day, Biden is harping on the "success" and "greatness" of the government's anti-epidemic efforts, and the Capitol Hill newspaper believes that "over-commitment" has become a major problem for Biden. The American people found that before the end of the year, the number of new crown deaths in their own country exceeded the previous year's total.

【Economy and People's Livelihood: From Inflation to Crisis】

Beginning in October, Americans have become more pessimistic about finding themselves risking infection to rush into the streets to buy consumer goods such as food, or face empty shelves posed with photos posing as goods and repeated delays in logistics.

The negative effects of the Biden administration's fiscal and monetary stimulus policies are emerging — inflation has risen to its highest level in nearly 40 years, port congestion has triggered a "supply chain crisis" and a large number of job openings. "People want a functioning economy ... Find a job and have psychological expectations about the price of your purchases," the ABC noted. The Biden administration, however, brought soaring prices and shortages of goods. Progressive Democrats such as Sanders have bluntly accused Biden of turning his back on the wage base.

Elite politicians have to admit that focusing on high-tech technology and the financial sector has created a situation in which the United States is overly dependent on low- and mid-range imports. The fragility of infrastructure and transport systems makes it difficult to turn around in the crisis.

Although Biden claims to no longer care about poll numbers after his approval rating fell to 40%, by the end of 2021, his approval rating remained at only 33%, even catching up with the performance of his predecessor Trump in the same period. According to a CBS survey, only 25 percent of Americans are satisfied with Biden's work over the past year.

That has already had an impact on Biden's chances of re-election in 2024 — 64 percent of respondents said they didn't want him to run for re-election. (End)

Source: China News Network