Going after GOP governors for their opposition to vaccine mandates, 78-year-old President Joe Biden reprisd a tried-and-true strategy used against former President Donald Trump in the 2020 campaign. Keep the Covid-19 in the spotlight, blaming the GOP for spreading the disease. How ironic that Biden’s chief medical officer, NIH’s chief of Allergy and Infectious Disease Dr. Anthony Fauci, funded the “gain-of-function” experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology [WIV] that created the deadly novel coronavirus. But Biden’s clever PR team hopes to divert attention away from the nightmare in Afghanistan, where Biden’s failed exit strategy blew up in his face, literally killing 13 U.S. soldiers during his mad scramble to get out of Kabul. Biden’s approval ratings dropped a whopping 10% in one week, putting his post-election honeymoon in the dustbin of history.
Biden’s PR team thinks that fighting with GOP governors is the equivalent of putting Trump back in the spotlight, since Democrats and the media did such a good job of blaming the nation’s coronavirus crisis on Trump. Remember former Washington Post, Watergate-famed journalist Bob Woodward blaming Trump for not leveling with the American public about the Covid-19 epidemic just beginning in January 2020. Trump, for some unknown reason, gave Woodward everything Democrats needed discredit him for mismanaging the Covid-19 crisis. Woodward said Trump knew everything what would happend with Covid pandemic Jan. 28, 2020, before there was even one death in the United States. Only Fauci knew what was created in the Wuhan lab by virologist Shi Zhengli. But, according to Woodward and Democrats, Trump knew everything Jan. 28, 2020.
What’s known now is that Democrats and the U.S. press did everything possible to blame the Covid-19 crisis on Trump, when, in fact, he did everything possible to stop the virus from coming from China to the U.S. Canceling all flights to-and-from China Jan. 31, 2020 Trump acted swiftly but it wasn’t enough for a voracious media hell-bent on preventing him from a second term. No one in journalism was more disingenuous than Woodward, joining the Democrats fight for the White House. His book tour was ballyhooed by the media only for only one reason: To get rid of Trump. Yet as the coronavirus pandemic wore on, Trump was hit by another covert political operative, octogenarian Dr. Tony Fauci. Fauci was used as Democrats special weapon to help get rid of Trump in November. Then, during the height of the pandemic, George Floyd was killed May 25, 2020 and race riots were all blamed on Trump.
So when it comes to Biden’s new mandates to help get better control over what looks like the unending Covid-19 crisis, Biden goes back to the same well that got him elected, keeping the virus in the headlines. Biden’s mandates were actually so feckless, so late in the game, so conspicuously an attempt to change his negative PR cycle, that they’re virtually worthless. Biden tells any company, private or public, with more than a 100 employees, that they must be vaccinated or take weekly Covid tests. How does taking weekly Covid tests help slow the spread of the virus? If Biden wanted to make a difference, then only complete vaccinations would be acceptable. Whatever flack comes from GOP governors, it’s not about fighting Covid mandates but acknowledging White House failures in domestic and foreign policy that’s left the country in a perpetual recession and harmed U.S. credibility overseas.
No foreign country, including U.S. allies, could fathom the way the U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan, only after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled Kabul Aug. 16. Biden had four months to execute a safe-and-orderly withdrawal of all U.S. and foreign citizens but chose a helter-skelter approach, making the 20-year anniversary of Sept. 11 more of a disgrace. What could have been a proud U.S. moment, Biden turned into another U.S. failure, leaving the country more vulnerable to foreign terrorism. “The White House recently said it’s not the federal government’s role to enforce a mandate. What changed?” asked Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ak.). Biden wants to blame GOP governors but only because that’s what worked against Trump in 2020. Pitting himself against another foil, this time GOP governors, Biden hopes the change the narrative from a sputtering economy and flailing foreign policy.
Biden wants to pick a fight with GOP governors because he’s hoping it will reverse his spiraling approval ratings now at 39%. “If these governors won’t help us beat the pandemic, I’ll use my power as president to get them out of the way,” Biden said, showing he has no intent to creating any bipartisan consensus between now and the 2020 Midterm elections. Biden enjoyed a convergence of factors that helped him defeat Trump in 2020, most significantly the Covid-19 crisis and race riots stemming from George Floyd. Biden’s PR team are running out of tricks, watching the economy and foreign policy take a hit since he took office. Despite record amounts of stimulus, a stubborn recession persists, whether admitted to or not. Only Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jay Powell, whose job is on the line, keeps interest rates at zero because the Biden economy has gone nowhere.
