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Republicans must learn to stop undermining President Joe Biden.

college and professional football season Always help me to differentiate between winning and losing. I like the Green Bay Packers, but they are not having a great year.

On the other hand, the University of Georgia has just executed its second undefeated regular season since Herschel Walker played there. (Of course, the Bulldogs would have to beat LSU.) SEC Championship And then win their second consecutive national championship on the hopes of Georgia alumni.)

The clarity of wins and losses creates clarity of analysis as to who is doing well and who is not.

Weak America First is the policy of the new Democratic Party

If you apply that simple model to Biden, you realize how well he is doing on his own definition of success.

FILE – President Biden speaks about inflation and supply chain issues in Los Angeles.
(AP Photo/Damien Dovergnes)

Like most Americans, I do not approve of the work they are doing. Like virtually all conservatives and Republicans, I deeply oppose his policies. They are clearly weakening America and strengthening our enemies. And, again, like most Americans, I oppose vigilante policies that are undermining and threatening to destroy the popular, unique, shared American culture.

However, the hostility of conservatives Biden Administration On our terms blinds us to how effective Biden has been on his own terms. They have only created and strengthened the Left Big Government Socialist Wake Culture System.

So much of what we dislike about Biden is that we focus on his speech difficulties, sometimes odd behavior, apparent lapses of memory, and other personal flaws. Our opposition to him and his policies makes us underestimate him and the Democrats.

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But remember: President Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan Both liked to be underestimated. Both wanted people to think of them as pleasant – but not dangerous. He found that being underestimated was a great asset. While people laughed at him, he was busy achieving his goals and implementing his programmes.

Biden has also achieved something similar.

He spent 50 years in public life (was elected to the US Senate at age 29 and was only eligible to take the oath after election in 1972). Biden fumbled liberally to become a major force in the Senate. While he failed miserably in his attempt to run for president, he ended up vice president for eight years, Then he stayed in the basement and won in 2020.

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The Biden team won a surprisingly narrow four-vote majority in the US House and a 50-50 tie in the Senate and turned it into trillions of dollars in spending – and a series of radical bills. Virtually every conservative strongly opposes the latest bill on sexual rights, trumping all others, even though it passed with Republican support.

Biden has carefully and carefully waged war in Ukraine without US troops. Though poorly timed and slowly delivered, American arms and financial aid helped cripple what would have been an easy victory. Russian President Vladimir Putin,

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Despite dire problems with the economy, crime and the border (which lead many analysts, myself included, to believe the GOP will make big gains in November) Biden and his team have employed a strategy of polarizing Americans against carry through Donald Trump Supporter. They turned January 6th into a crisis that eclipsed the Left’s previous summer of fire, chaos and destruction. He also greatly exaggerated the threat to abortion rights. And it all worked.

The Biden team had one of the best first-year polls in history. They were not refuted. they didn’t have to pay for their terrible mismanagement of the economy,

If Republicans are going to successfully serve the next two years in Congress – and win the presidency in 2024 – we need to look more deeply at what did and did not work in 2020 and 2022.

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There is not nearly enough understanding (or acceptance) among prominent Republicans today that our system and approach failed. We need to rethink from the ground up how we’re going to defeat big government socialism – including an almost inevitable second time Democrat presidential candidate Biden,

This is a bigger challenge than I had anticipated before the election.

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