Biden’s worst month reflects his dangerous open border experiment

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This is the worst month of President Biden’s 50-year political career.

All those times over the decades he got caught lying and plagiarizing other people’s accomplishments were not nearly as politically damaging as the past month has been for him. Sure, his presidential campaigns flamed out, but it wasn’t like he was going to get elected any of those times since nobody took him seriously.

Until, that is, Barack Obama decided he needed an old White guy who had spent decades in Washington to be his vice president.

Even the month of his catastrophic withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan was not as bad for him politically — mainly because it would be three years before he faced voters again. He had plenty of time to redeem himself on the world stage, which, of course, he has spectacularly failed to do. (Mr. Biden is the greatest foreign policy expert ever to become president, and he has given us nothing but defeat and more wars.)

Anyway, the far greater harm that day in August 2021 was done to the United States, global peace, and the civilized world’s ongoing fight against radical Islamic savagery. By the end of the day, 13 U.S. service members were killed, billions of dollars’ worth of American war materiel was handed over to terrorists, and the Taliban resumed their brutal control of Afghanistan. 

Certainly, that was the moment voters began to lose faith in Mr. Biden’s 7-month-old presidency. But it was not as bad for him politically as this month has been.

The central premise of President Biden’s governing philosophy — indeed the entire Democratic Party’s — is that the United States is a failed country on a sure glide path to defeat and bankruptcy. The only hope, according to Democrats, is to bring in millions of migrants from Third World countries.

With the promise of welfare and free health care for all, Mr. Biden opened the border and is spending billions of dollars to house illegal aliens around the country. Last week, Mr. Biden admitted for the first time that his dangerous experiment has been a catastrophe.    

The dead bodies and child rape victims are the direct results of Mr. Biden’s intentional policies. So are the lawlessness and attacks on our police officers. And so are the billions of dollars governments around the country are spending to transport, house and feed millions of illegal aliens that Mr. Biden refuses to stop at the border, let alone deport.

It is not the slightest exaggeration to say that Mr. Biden and the Democratic Party care more about illegal aliens from foreign countries than he does about American citizens.

Honest question: When was the last time the federal government bought you a plane ticket? When was the last time the federal government put you up in a hotel and fed you for a month?

It is so bad that his administration spent a week refusing to so much as mention the name of a slain Georgia nursing student. One of Mr. Biden’s criminal migrants is charged with murder in her death. And when Mr. Biden finally did try uttering her name, he butchered it and called her by the wrong name.

Mr. Biden was forced to finally show up at the border for a photo-op to plead with voters that he is finally taking the problem seriously and that he actually cares about the rape, murder and impoverishment of American citizens as a result of his policies.

And who forced him? Donald Trump, the man who single-handedly forced Washington politicians to take the threat of illegal immigration seriously when he stormed the White House in 2017. It is Mr. Trump’s signature issue, and Mr. Trump is now set for a head-to-head match-up against a severely weakened, mentally shot, failing President Biden on the battlefield of his choosing.

Thanks to Mr. Biden’s scorching performance at last week’s State of the Union address, Democrats feel just confident enough in Mr. Biden that they are now determined to ride him into the November election, which he will most certainly lose.

• Charles Hurt is the opinion editor at The Washington Times.