Buyers' Remorse

Apparently some Democrats are regretting their support for Joe Biden in the last election. Ryan Girdusky gleans the data from a recent YouGov/Economist poll. It's the first poll that has Biden's approval under 40%.

(approve/disapprove):

• Overall: 39/50
• Men: 36/53
• Women: 42/46
• White men no degree: 28/61
• White women w/ degree: 53/42
• Black: 65/26
• Hispanic: 41/36
• Registered Voters: 43/53
• Dems: 77/15
• GOP: 9/89
• Independents: 35/56

As bad as these numbers are one wonders whether Mr. Biden has yet to hit the bottom or will he sink even further as the full extent of the Afghanistan debacle begins to dawn on the electorate.

Stephen Green at PJ Media observes that,

A Democrat president cannot survive with such [relatively] weak support from black voters, from female voters, and from independent voters.

To put it another way, Donald Trump in his last, tumultuous year in office, after five years of relentless attacks from the media-government-education-entertainment complex, still enjoyed support from 86% of Republican voters.

Biden, after less than a year in office and near-relentless cheerleading from the media-government-education-entertainment complex, has an approval rating of just 77% with his fellow Dems.

At Hot Air Karen Townsend notes that there's another group who seem to have quietly abandoned the Biden bandwagon:

As far as the Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco, one group of Biden voters is being particularly quiet. Remember those 500 plus national security professionals who endorsed Biden in 2020 over Trump? Remember they said Trump was unfit to be commander-in-chief and Biden had the experience to be a calm and able leader?

Last week Real Clear Politics reached out to more than two dozen of the highest-ranking military and civilian leaders on the list of nearly 500 endorsers, but only a handful of them responded.

Perhaps these "experts" would rather the American people just forget that during the campaign they touted Mr. Biden's foreign policy expertise and gave him their enthusiastic support.

The Biden White House is eager to put Afghanistan in the rear view mirror, but stories of Americans and Afghans who worked with us being rescued out of Afghanistan by heroic individuals and private organizations while our State Department sits on its hands will continue to percolate through the news for a while, reminding people of what may be the most bungled foreign policy endeavor in the modern history of the United States.

It may be that the American people will indeed forget about Afghanistan once those stories wind down and President Biden's approval numbers float back up, but if so, it would speak very, very poorly of us as a people.