by Joe Concha
First published 2022
Joe Concha argues that Biden's presidency represents a calculated progressive agenda rather than mere incompetence. The author examines Biden's transition from an 81 million vote victory and 60 percent approval rating to a series of policy failures. Concha details the Afghanistan withdrawal that killed thirteen service members, rising crime rates in sixteen cities that set homicide records, 2.3 million illegal border crossings, and inflation reaching forty year peaks. He analyzes the COVID resurgence and Russia's Ukraine invasion during Biden's watch. The book contends that Biden's apparent stumbles actually advance progressive policy goals. Concha suggests that actions like attacking Elon Musk serve environmental objectives while higher gas prices supposedly strengthen the middle class. The author presents Biden not as a confused leader but as someone executing a deliberate left wing transformation of America. Democrats distancing themselves from Biden during midterm campaigns becomes evidence of the administration's failures rather than political calculation.
Genres: american, political-science, non-fiction, 21st-century, current-affairs, american-history
Vibes: suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
272 pages · Kindle Edition · Broadside