Really, the Democratic Party is out touch altogether
Joe Biden is hopelessly out of touch with voters’ priorities
Inflation is at its highest level in decades. Store shelves are empty. The southern border is in chaos. Hundreds of Americans are still trapped in Afghanistan. China just tested a hypersonic missile. Employers can’t find workers to keep their businesses running. No wonder more than 60% say the country is going in the wrong direction.
But don’t worry: President Joe Biden has a “National Gender Strategy†that will turn everything around.
The document, released on Oct. 22, is every bit as ridiculous as it sounds. Identifying “gender equity†as a “moral and strategic imperative,†the strategy promises an “intersectional approach†that acknowledges “compounding forms of discrimination†including gender, race, sexual orientation, disability, age, and socioeconomic status. This “first ever National Strategy on Gender Equity and Equality†will provide an “aspirational vision†and a “comprehensive agenda†to advance gender equity.
The agenda in the document is, at heart, the same tired laundry list of new government programs that the Left has been trying to force on the nation for decades using other specious justifications.
Nowhere does the “strategy†address inflation or the border crisis. The only time COVID-19 is even mentioned is when the document asserts that no one has suffered more from the pandemic than “women and girls of color.†And that’s not even true — the data indicate that men are more likely to die from COVID .
Meanwhile, CBS has a new poll out showing that only 37% of people believe Biden is focusing on the issues they care about. What a huge surprise. Majorities of voters believe Biden hasn’t focused enough on inflation (60%), the U.S.-Mexico border (57%), and jobs (53%). Somehow, Biden’s gender equity strategy isn’t assuaging their concerns.
It’s well worth ready the rest of this Washington Examiner piece. Suffice to say, Let’s Go Brandon is in La La Land, or, at least, his advisors are, because Joe doesn’t seem to have a clue what’s going on, just saying what his advisors tell him.
Here’s the big question: what does the GOP do about this? They haven’t been very strong on their messaging for decades. They do not sustain political attacks. Trump did (probably too much), which is why so much of the Republican base loved him. He fought back. He tried to solve problems, not keep them going while saying “elect me again and I’ll fix this.”
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On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,†host Bill Maher stated that education will be the big issue in the 2022 elections because “Parents vote, and they don’t like what’s going on in school.†And that Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe’s (D) statement that parents shouldn’t be telling schools what to teach happened because “Democrats are so used to talking to teachers. This is a mic drop applause line with teachers, not so much with parents.â€
A Washington, D.C., district court judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday that prevents both civilian and active-duty military plaintiffs from being terminated after they sued the Biden administration over religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccines.
Climate has emerged as the single largest category in President Biden’s new framework for a huge spending bill, placing global warming at the center of his party’s domestic agenda in a way that was hard to imagine just a few years ago.
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There will be no bargains with an overheating climate.
