Letter to the editor: Biden, a modern-day Nero

So, according to most recent polling, President Biden’s approval rating bounces from just below to just above 40%. It’s hard for me to imagine that 40% of the country thinks he is doing a good job. Let’s leave Donald Trump out of the conversation. He’s been out of office for 28 months. Who among us walks around thinking, “My life has definitely improved under Joe Biden”?

Let’s just consider some of his “greatest accomplishments”: Record high gasoline prices. Near-record inflation. A pullout from Afghanistan that became a national embarrassment. Record illegal migration, resulting in record fentanyl deaths. Major cities suffering from high crime and unable to maintain enough police to protect them. Bending to an increasingly aggressive China. A military unable to meet recruiting goals. A First Family that has inexplicably received millions of dollars from foreign actors.

Let’s not leave out the fact that this president supports allowing biological males to compete against females in sports, as well as using women’s locker rooms and bathrooms. Until the past few years, not one politician from either party would have advocated for that.

So now Biden prepares for a reelection run. It doesn’t seem possible that Americans are brainless enough to reelect him, but don’t count him out.

Joe Biden. Our modern-day Nero. If he played the fiddle it would be perfect.

Richard Byers

Mt. Pleasant