I’ve been suggesting for some time now that to get the kind of approval ratings that Joe Biden has been getting, the only way the numbers could go that low would be a large number of Democrats rejecting the radicalism we’ve seen from the Democrat elite.
Confirmation comes by way of Ed Morrissey at Hot Air
Joe Biden may not be alone in a confidence-crisis cascade. Gallup’s latest polling on congressional approval finds it declining, which may have all the newsy value of reporting on the wetness of water. But the origin of this decline demonstrates the damage the party has done to itself after several months of internecine warfare over its extreme-left turn:
Democrats’ approval of Congress rose 50 points between December 2020 and February 2021 when it peaked at 61%. This spanned a period when Congress went from divided control (with Democrats in the majority in the House and Republicans in the Senate) to full Democratic control. Democrats’ approval remained high after the American Rescue Plan coronavirus relief law was passed in March.
However, by June, when Congress failed to pass President Joe Biden’s infrastructure package by his Memorial Day deadline, Democrats’ rating of the body fell below the majority level. After a brief rally above 50% in August and September, Democrats’ approval of Congress fell as infighting among Democratic legislators held up passage of Biden’s climate change and social spending bill. With Biden’s legislative agenda still stalled, Democrats’ latest 26% approval of the legislative branch is the lowest it has been in a year.
Frankly, the indications are that the problem that the Democrat rank and file is having with the president and the Congress is not that they didn’t manage to pass the far left leaning agenda, but what it is they tried to pass.
I’ll say this again; the rank and file of both parties is far more conservative then what either party has managed to puke up in the last 50 years, with the notable exceptions of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.
That disconnect is going to cost the Democratic party dearly in the next couple of cycles, and thus do we see Joe Biden in his press conference the other day already making excuses for the bloodbath that the Democrats are going to take, claiming that the election will not be fair.
Frankly, the indications are that the problem that the Democrat rank and file is having with the president and the Congress is not that they didn’t manage to pass the far left leaning agenda, but what it is they tried to pass.
I’ll say this again; the rank and file of both parties is far more conservative then what either party has managed to puke up in the last 50 years, with the notable exceptions of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.
That disconnect is going to cost the Democratic party dearly in the next couple of cycles, and thus do we see Joe Biden in his press conference the other day already making excuses for the bloodbath that the Democrats are going to take, claiming that the election will not be fair.
