We have two days to go before Donald Trump returns to the White House. It’s an exciting time for all of us. As happy as we can be that Trump is returning, there’s another aspect of this political shift worth celebrating: Joe Biden leaving office.
Back in 2020, Biden was touted as the “sane” candidate in the Democratic primaries—a so-called moderate who could unify the country and work across the aisle. On top of that, the media painted him as a likable, decent figure who promised to “restore the soul of America.”
It was obvious well before he took office he wasn’t going to be the uniter he promised he would be. Perhaps no other decision made this clearer than his choice of Kamala Harris as his running mate. Your goal is not to unite this country when you pick a San Francisco leftist as your running mate.
And sure enough, Biden quickly proved himself to be one of the most radical Democrats ever to hold office. He doubled down on the Obama playbook, and his extremism was evident from the start as he aggressively reversed Trump’s policies—not because they didn’t work, but out of spite. If Trump did something, it was “bad,” and if Biden could reverse it via executive action, he did.
His administration’s reckless spending led to record-breaking inflation that crippled this country by making basic necessities unaffordable for many Americans. His administration proved how clueless it was about what it was doing because they repeatedly insisted that inflation would be transitory. It wasn’t.
His open-border policies fueled a surge in violent crime, and high-profile tragedies involving illegal aliens underscored the dangers of his approach. On the global stage, his weakness emboldened adversaries like Russia and Iran. From the catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan—where he checked his watch as the remains of fallen soldiers returned—to the mishandling of hostage situations with Iranian-backed Hamas, Biden consistently fell short when it mattered most.
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In his desperation to be the hero who “defeated” the COVID virus, he sought vaccine mandates that threatened to cost millions of Americans their jobs. Despite all this, Biden’s COVID efforts were a colossal failure; more Americans died during his first year in office than in 2020, even after Biden claimed we had “independence” from the virus in July 2021.
And let’s not forget the corruption allegations against the Biden family that came to light after Republicans regained control of the House. Impeachment appeared inevitable due to the mounting evidence, but Biden's decision not to run again took the air out of the effort.
If Joe Biden had been the president he promised to be during his campaign, his term might have been far less disastrous. But Democrats seem incapable of resisting their most radical impulses. Rather than striving for a legacy that all Americans could view with pride, Biden prioritized pandering to the far left—and America paid a steep price for it.
Under Joe Biden, the lofty promise of competence and unity unraveled into a grim reality of division, mismanagement, and widespread harm. His administration left Americans struggling with soaring inflation, rising crime, and global instability. Domestically and internationally, the nation was worse off after his tenure. His exit from office brings a close to one of the most disastrous chapters in American leadership—and I couldn’t be more relieved to see it end.
