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Phyllis Schlafly correctly predicted in 1967 that President Lyndon B. Johnson could not be reelected if the Vietnam War continued through 1968. “Johnson’s political future depends on ending the war in some way,” she wrote 56 years ago in her book against the Deep State entitled Safe – Not Sorry. That war did continue, and as now we were entangled in it without a full debate and formal declaration by Congress. Subsequently the otherwise invincible Johnson was humiliated in his own primary and forced to withdraw from the presidential race in order to be replaced as the Democrat nominee.
As the recession takes hold and deepens in the United States, Biden and the Democrats will lose badly on Election Day next year if they continue to send money to fuel NATO’s agenda in Ukraine. CNN admitted over the summer that most Americans oppose Congress providing more funding for this war. Among Republicans, 71% oppose sending more money there. Democrats can avoid talking about the recession, but they cannot avoid voters’ wrath for advancing a pro-war globalist ideology rather than America First.
The average length of recessions after World War II has been 10 months, but the so-called Great Recession that swept Democrats into power in 2008 lasted 18 months while one in the early 1980s lasted 16 months. Ballots will be cast next year while Americans are unable to keep up with the spiraling inflation and interest rates. The laughable “Bidenomics” branding that the left is trying out is just a flailing attempt to get some of their propaganda to stick. No matter what CNN tries to shove down the throats of unwilling viewers, no American can look at the price of a gallon of milk and fail to see the toll Biden’s America is taking on our families.
Democrats talk of replacing Biden as their nominee because of his age, but an equally large problem for him is trying to defend his pro-war policies during a recession. Robbing Americans further to fund perpetual foreign violence during a recession is not a successful formula for Democrats to win an election.
This post originally appeared at https://www.phyllisschlafly.com/national-sovereignty/defense/biden-pro-war-stance-during-recession-will-fail/
