OPINION:
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The central question for any incumbent president running for reelection is, “Are voters better off today than they were four years ago?”
For President Biden, that question is easily answered. Of course not. No matter how many lies he tries to tell about it.
Inflation has exploded. Mortgage rates have ballooned. Gas prices are up, despite President Biden’s orders to flood the U.S. market with fuel from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve aimed at lowering prices in time for his reelection.
Financially, nobody is better off today than they were four years ago — except, perhaps, for Mr. Biden and his family.
Security is a similar story under the Biden regime.
Crime is up. There is an illegal invasion at the border. There are two new catastrophic wars abroad.
Even when it comes to COVID-19 — the primary argument of his 2020 campaign — Mr. Biden failed miserably. More people have died from the disease under Mr. Biden than died under former President Donald Trump. And it was Mr. Trump who made the vaccines possible.
And of course, our politics have never been more toxic as President Biden has waged a 3½-year campaign to jail his political opponents and smear supporters of Mr. Trump as fascists and racists.
It doesn’t take a rigged New York jury, a team of corrupt prosecutors and a mountain of lies to determine the verdict of whether regular Americans are better off today than they were four years ago.
The answer to that question is so painfully obvious that is leads to another — more sinister and devious — question.
Who is Mr. Biden working for? Obviously, he is not working for the American people.
Every single area where regular Americans are suffering — inflation, mortgage rates, gas prices, the open border, the two new wars overseas — Mr. Biden is singularly responsible.
With the flick of a pen, he opened the border. With the flick of several pens, he throttled American energy production — not only raising gas prices for regular Americans but also massively enriching Russian President Vladimir Putin, who promptly invaded Ukraine.
Speaking of enriching our enemies, Mr. Biden also turned on the oil spigot for Iran. He sent the mullahs of Iran billions of dollars, which they immediately used to pay their Hamas fighters to invade Israel and take innocent hostages.
Meanwhile, back at home, surging inflation and mortgage rates are a direct result of Mr. Biden’s reckless printing of money to spend on projects such as “student loan debt relief” — a naked slop aimed at getting himself reelected.
Also, he placed on the Supreme Court a justice who testified under oath in her confirmation hearing that she does not know what a “woman” is.
So, the question remains: Who is President Biden really working for?
This week, Mr. Biden’s recovering crackhead, whore-loving son goes on trial in a Delaware courtroom for lying on federal forms when he illegally purchased a handgun. Guns in the hands of dangerous, irresponsible people are normally an issue that Democrats claim to care very much about.
But not in this case, because Hunter Biden is Joe Biden’s son. And the elder Biden has gone to great lengths to prevent this trial from ever happening in the first place.
The Secret Service, the Department of Justice, favorable prosecutors and even friendly judges have all been deployed by Mr. Biden in the effort to protect Hunter Biden from justice in this case.
Compare that with the extraordinary efforts President Biden’s Department of Justice, Democratic prosecutors and a partisan, conflicted New York judge have made to ensure Donald Trump was found guilty of felony paperwork charges last week in a New York courtroom.
Felony. Paperwork.
Who is Mr. Biden really working for? Certainly for his family. Obviously, the mullahs of Iran. The government of Mexico. Maybe Vladimir Putin.
But definitely not you.
• Charles Hurt is the opinion editor at The Washington Times.
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