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U.S. cities had set homicide records in 2021. This trend coincided with — and almost


certainly was exacerbated by — the “defund the police” movement and reckless left-wing district attorneys, such as Chesa Boudin in San Francisco and Alvin Bragg in New York City, who have decided not to prosecute a host of lower-level crimes. Ignoring those factors, Biden has pointed


to the pandemic and guns as the cause of the surge in violence and looting. While Biden has opposed “defund the po-


lice” efforts, in January he said police should get more money to hire “psychologists and so- cial workers,” which is a key demand of the de- funding movement.


Siding With Teachers Unions, Not Parents Biden’s time in office may mark the moment when Democrats lose the education issue. Many parents who used to blindly support public schools became furious over school clo- sures, mask mandates, and inappropriate sub- jects such as critical race theory being taught without their knowledge. Last October, Attorney General Merrick Garland responded to such concerns by send-


ing out a memo calling on the FBI to investi- gate “violent threats against school officials and teachers,” despite a lack of evidence of such threats. It turned out Garland’s memo was drafted


in part by the National School Boards Asso- ciation, which in turn receives a huge chunk of money from teachers unions.


Biden’s Future Political analysts who examine Biden’s record say that if his lousy poll numbers were caused by one issue, his political standing could be ad- dressed by fixing that one issue. But Biden is dying in the polls due to a form


of what doctors call “multiple organ failure.” Everything is going wrong on his watch and it’s not fixable in any reasonable length of time before the 2024 election. That leaves many Democrats with the feel-


ing that Biden has to go. At best, they see him as an old and tired fig- ure who can’t rally the public to follow him.


Could They Force Him to Resign? It’s unlikely. Biden is a stubborn and persistent man. Consider that many of his friends and family members urged him not to run for presi- dent at the age of 78. But Biden has had presidential ambitions


for four decades and isn’t likely to give up be- fore his four-year term ends. What is more likely is that Biden will be


bluntly told by his pollsters and staff that his path to a second term is blocked and he could face a historic repudiation at the polls — even if the polarizing Trump were once again his op- ponent.


ANGER Parents in Tampa, Florida, protest an effort by their school district to enforce a mask mandate on students.


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Who Would Democrats Then Nominate? Party leaders are almost as leery of the stum- bling Kamala Harris as their presidential nom- inee as they are of Biden running for reelection. But what many of them agree on is they could hardly do worse if they just paged through a directory of elected officials and picked one at random.


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