The emperor is naked. The public knows it, and they’re finally beginning to speak the obvious truth. The emperor, in this case, is President Biden. He took office with high hopes from voters and a promise to bring the country together. Those aspirations are dead. The public has lost confidence in Joe Biden – lost confidence that he can do the job, and lost confidence that he is even minimally competent. They certainly don’t think he has brought the country together (though they think Republicans share the blame for that).
This sour mood hurts more than the President. It hurts his entire party, and will be extremely hard to reverse.
Some decline in popularity is inevitable after a new president takes office. For Biden, however, the losses have been huge. They began as voters evaluated the President’s abrupt, incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan. They grew worse as inflation rose, and the President’s answer was to spend even more.
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