Biden administration keep driving down its poll numbers

 Roger Kimball:

Is this the beginning of the end of the Biden administration? 

Merrick Garland has instructed the FBI to mobilize against parents who oppose critical race theory in public schools

When future historians congregate to conduct their postmortem of the short-lived Biden administration, what date will they pick to mark the crisis that signaled the beginning of the end? I’d like to offer October 4, 2021 for consideration.

In the weeks before, it is true, Biden’s approval rating had been in free fall. (Fun pastime if you’re bored: enter ‘Biden’ and ‘free fall’ into your favorite search engine). There was the world historical disaster of our evacuation of Afghanistan, the nearest parallel to which was not America’s ignominious departure from Saigon in 1975 but William Elphinstone’s disastrous evacuation from Kabul in 1842. There was the unfolding crisis at our southern border. The President insisted that the border was ‘closed’ (in the same way that he said that the cost of his doomed, $3.5 trillion spending plan was ‘zero’), but his own officials are prepping for a surge of 400,000 illegals in the month of October. Inflation is at a 30-year high, with no end in sight. Gas, food, housing, clothes: the prices of all are skyrocketing. The President came to office promising to ‘shut down’ COVID, not the country, but since he took office some 250,000 people have died and ineffectual mask mandates, vaccine mandates, St-Anthony-Fauci-certified mandate mandates have proliferated like pussy hats at an anti-Trump rally.
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We all suspected that Biden was not very bright and now it looks like those around him either are not bright or cannot rein in his eagerness to alienate voters.  One of the good things that have come out of this episode is that people now realize Garland would have been a terrible Supreme Court Justice.

See, also:

Catastrophic crash in polling numbers for Biden and the Dems

And: 

Why Biden’s Approval Rating Isn’t Bouncing Back

This story discusses several factors but omits one of the biggest, the border fiasco where Biden's approval hovers around 25 %. 

And:

Poll: Majority Say Joe Biden Doing a ‘Poor Job’ in Uniting the Country