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Depending on who you ask, President Biden has wandered too far to the left or too far from the left. Now, as the 46th president of the United States embarks on a 2024 run, Biden is breaking with progressives on hot-button issues like crime, immigration, and oil drilling, and some on the left aren’t happy.
Straight Arrow News contributor Ruben Navarrette is one of them. He argues that the president isn’t as compassionate as he pretends to be and asks, “With Democrats like these, who needs Republicans?”
In truth, Biden takes a hard Left on only a few issues like gun control or protecting Social Security. On other issues, though, Biden veers to the Right. On crime, famously, Biden authored the racist 1994 crime bill, which militarized the police force, [had] different penalties for drug crimes, and fueled the mass incarceration of Blacks and Latinos.
And then there’s immigration, where Biden has been a total disaster because of all his sudden Right turns. The President does a spooky-good impersonation of his predecessor, he who shall not be named, in fact copying many of the evil immigration policies of the last administration. At present, Biden is getting ready to revive a policy of detaining families of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. See, it’s all about his reelection campaign — and his fear of being painted as an open-border liberal by his GOP opponent, whoever it is.
Sometimes Biden and his cabinet secretaries just look away and pretend not to see an injustice, so they don’t have to do anything about it. That is particularly easy to do, it turns out, when the injustice involves an issue that he doesn’t think about, know about, or care about.
