Campaign Scare Strategy Underscores Biden Failures, Disasters

During his own campaign rallies, former President Trump has been asking everyone if they can think of anything at all that has become better under the Biden administration.

Based on dismal Biden polling demographics, even among his traditional base populations, it appears that this question reflects enormously negative trending sentiments of much of the public.

According to a recent USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll, the current president trails his predecessor by 5 percentage points (34%-39%) among likely Hispanic voters, four points (33%-37%) among voters under 35, and retains support of just 63% of Black voters, a precipitous decline from the 87% he carried in 2020.

Nevertheless, having totally bombed out on performance regarding issues the broad public cares most about, Joe and his handlers have framed his campaign mantra around “saving democracy,” an ironic term that seems entirely alien to policies and actions planned and orchestrated since taking office in the White House.

Speaking on Jan.5 at a community college about 10 miles from Valley Forge National Historical Park, a strategically themed site on a date obviously intended to be conflated with Capitol riots, Biden said, “Today we’re here to answer the most important of questions: Is democracy still America’s sacred cause? ... It’s what the 2024 election is all about.”

Biden had initially planned to give the Valley Forge remarks on Jan. 6, the actual anniversary of the Capitol mayhem, but moved the speech a day earlier due to an inclement weather forecast for the Philadelphia area.

Notably dismissing other prospective GOP and independent opponents by omission, Biden’s dark 30-minute fear trope personally referred to Donald Trump more than 40 times.

Adding special irony to the occasion, much of the speech was devoted to that calendar date as a day “that we nearly lost America,” by “trying to steal history the same way he [Trump] tried to steal the election.”

“We saw it with our own eyes,” Biden said. “Trump’s mob wasn’t a peaceful protest. It was a violent assault. They were insurrectionists, not patriots.”

To date, however, although more than 1,230 people have been charged with federal crimes for their participation, neither Trump nor any of those protestors have been formally charged — much less convicted — of “insurrection.”

Meanwhile, Trump’s legal team has demanded documents in his defense of special counsel Jack Smith’s efforts to convict him of inciting the protest in order to eliminate his eligibility for 2024 candidacy … a contentious legal matter that will be addressed next month by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Attributions of threats to democracy posed by Trump and MAGA-leaning Republicans and independents who comprise about half of the U.S. population ring hollow in the face of unrelenting lawfare efforts to remove the nation’s leading candidate for top national office by any means they can hope to get away with.

If efforts to keep Trump off the ballot aren’t enough, his dutiful DOJ prosecutors work to keep him tied up in court appearances that gag and remove him from the campaign trail.

Jack Smith had originally set the first trial regarding Jan. 6 charges to begin on March 4, the day before March 5 Super Tuesday contests, when Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Vermont vote to select a GOP nominee.

Smith has also set a Trump trial date regarding alleged illegal retention of classified documents for May 20, a day ahead of Kentucky’s primary and shortly before New Jersey’s on June 4.

On top of this, New York Democratic Attorney General Letitia James wants to confiscate all of Trump’s New York properties and cancel his licenses to conduct business there based upon allegations that he overvalued his extensive Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach when applying for business loans which he subsequently paid fully back on time.

So far at least, none of these banana republic-style attempts to weaponize the U.S. criminal justice system against political opponents seems to be working quite as planned.

Two impeachment charades haven’t finished Trump’s ascendancy, and four indictments with 91 felony counts based on untested and unchartered claims during the runup to a presidential election have only caused more to rally at his side.

This, after all, is still a 2024 contender with about 70% support from his own party who is decisively beating President Biden in most polls, including likely voters in all swing states.

No, rather than registering fear over any Trump threat to democracy, a growing number of likely voters are logically more concerned regarding a true horror show that has occurred since Joe Biden reversed his predecessor’s policies that were previously making their lives far better.

Just for example, they recall recent times that now seem so long ago when inflation, commodity costs and oil prices were low with much thanks to fossil energy independence.

They remember a time prior to the southern border invasion that has since allowed as many as 10 million unvetted illegal migrants into the country — more than 300,000 in December alone - along with rampant sex and narcotics trafficking and national security threats.

They observe rising crime rates as police budgets are cut, and as prosecutors and judges allow criminals to roam free.

Many worry whether their government can continue to honor Social Security and health care requirements as interest obligations now consume nearly a third of the national debt.

And they all really should worry.