As he leaves office, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. appears to have amassed a strong case that he deserves the title of “worst American president.”
As Joe Biden prepares to leave office, it’s worth reflecting on where he ranks among the 45 men who have served as president of the United States. By combining Carter-level incompetence on economic and foreign policy, radical leftism on social policy, and a singular disregard for the Constitution, Biden has perhaps earned the 45th and last place on the historical list.
The Biden presidency has had no widely recognized major accomplishments — at least none that have risen to the level of an historic achievement — while it has been marked by at least seven major failings. Let’s take these in reverse order.
7. He leaves the world a far less secure and safe place.
Few would say that the world seems a more peaceful or orderly place than it was when Biden’s presidency began. To whatever extent one ascribes blame to him for the wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East, he clearly bears responsibility for the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, perhaps America’s most embarrassing foreign policy moment since the fall of Saigon. That debacle had a major and lasting effect on Americans’ perceptions of Biden’s competency. Prior to August 2021, when the Afghanistan withdrawal was completed, Biden’s approval rating in Gallup’s polling was always at least 50 percent. After August, it was never higher than 45 percent. (As of December, it sat at 39 percent.)
6. He presided over the worst inflation in four decades and ran up the national debt.
Over the past century, Jimmy Carter is the only president who presided over worse inflation during his first three years in office than Biden did. According to the latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, $100 when Biden took office is now worth just $82.88. Relatedly, Americans’ credit card debt has risen 51 percent under Biden (through last September), to $1.166 trillion, the highest tally on record. […]
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