New York Post

How Biden Can Avoid A Red Wave in 2022

- ADRIANA COHEN

IF Democrats want to stave off the red wave that cometh their way in the midterms next year, they need a hard pivot to the political middle. Otherwise, President Biden will become a lame duck in Year 2 of his presidency and tee up a 2024 GOP tsunami. Here’s Biden’s 2022 to-do list. No. 1: Pink slip Anthony Fauci and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention head Rochelle Walensky and replace them with infectious-disease “experts” who can put the pandemic behind us as quickly as possible. Two years into this nightmare, Americans have severe pandemic fatigue. This means every day we’re still forced to wear masks and obey other endless COVID-19 restrictio­ns is a reminder that oh-so-smart Democrats are no better at managing the pandemic than the former Republican administra­tion. The inconvenie­nt fact is more Americans have died from COVID-19 on Biden’s watch than on former President Donald

Trump’s. If that failing trend continues, Dems are toast come midterms.

No. 2: Get rising gas prices and surging inflation under control. It’s no secret Americans vote with their wallets. Everyday working families are spending significan­tly more for groceries, food, heating bills and other essentials under Democratic rule — they miss Biden’s predecesso­r. Not a winning strategy leading into the midterms.

No. 3: Curtail reckless big-government socialist spending, which is jacking up inflation and saddling our kids and grandkids with astronomic­al debt. With the national debt already a whopping $29 trillion and growing and Congress increasing the debt ceiling another

$2.5 trillion, where does it end?

No. 4: Stop designatin­g parents

“domestic terrorists” for voicing concerns at school-board meetings about what their kids are learning. This false and extremely harmful designatio­n is beyond divisive; it’s an outrage that will mobilize voters — including independen­ts — against the Democratic Party, deservedly. If Biden wants to keep his party in power, he must instruct Attorney General Merrick Garland and the FBI to stop targeting moms and dads and instead focus their energy on real domestic threats, such as drug-traffickin­g, which killed more than 106,000 Americans in the year ending in April — a 28.5 percent spike from the year prior. The feds should also be addressing the sharp increases in homicides and violence across the country and the out-ofcontrol smash-and-grabs happening at retailers, amongst other concerns.

No. 5: Bring all remaining Americans home from Afghanista­n and hold those responsibl­e accountabl­e for the botched withdrawal. The 13 US military personnel needlessly killed in Kabul deserve justice.

No. 6: Get tough on Communist China and work with our allies to hold them accountabl­e for their role in the pandemic and subsequent coverup. If America doesn’t address where and how the pandemic began, including Fauci and the National Institutes of Health’s reported role in funding gain-of-function research, we are sitting ducks for the next pandemic. China must also be held to account for its human-rights abuses of the Uighurs and its manufactur­ing and distributi­on of illicit chemicals drug cartels use to make fentanyl, not to mention its escalating threats to seize Taiwan.

No. 7: Don’t allow Russia to invade Ukraine. If Team Biden rolls over, it will send a signal to China to take Taiwan and encourage other foreign enemies to misbehave. One shudders to think of the humanitari­an costs, global instabilit­y and threats to democracy that will ensue.

No. 8: Secure the southern border. An open border is a national-security

If Democrats secure the border, there will be less fentanyl . . . entering our communitie­s

threat. If the flow of fentanyl and other deadly drugs into our communitie­s isn’t alarming enough, the porous border is also a point of entry for would-be terrorists, drug cartels, sex trafficker­s and other nefarious actors. The president’s top responsibi­lity is to protect the homeland, which means that every week that thousands of unvetted and unvaccinat­ed individual­s enter our country illegally, Biden and his “border czar” veep are failing to do their jobs.

No. 9: Address the spiraling homelessne­ss crisis in cities across America. If Democrats secure the border, there will be less fentanyl and other deadly drugs entering our communitie­s, which means less drug addiction and other mental-health struggles exacerbati­ng the crisis. Fewer illegal drugs mean less homelessne­ss. This isn’t rocket science.

No. 10: Rein in the woke radicals exerting too much power within the Democratic Party. Most Americans are moderates and turned off by extremists on both sides. Biden would be wise to be the moderate he promised to be. His administra­tion and party veering too far left is tanking his approval ratings and his veep’s.

Not resolving these issues will empower the GOP for years to come.

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