Biden’s presidency is certainly historic, but not in the way he anticipates

There is no denying that President Joe Biden’s first term in office has been historic, at least in the sense that he is historically unpopular.

Biden has two of the three lowest polling results in Gallup’s measuring of people’s confidence in the president “to do the right thing for the U.S. economy” since 2001. Just 38% polled this year trust Biden on the economy, up from his 35% number last year. The only president with a worse number was George W. Bush at 34% in 2008. No other president in any other year has a number lower than 42%.

Former President Donald Trump is polling at 46% on this issue, which also happens to be the most important election topic to voters. Trump leads independents over Biden on this issue, 45%-33%.

Biden has spent his presidency embracing unpopular subjects or chasing votes on issues people don’t really compare about. His constant pandering to terrorist sympathizers on the Israel-Hamas war is a prime example, as Biden chases a small chunk of voters in Michigan by undermining Israel while the vast majority of the country backs Israel.

Or take his outsize focus on student debt and climate change, two topics that White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre again named last week as ones that Biden “knows that young people care about.” But climate change ranks 12th out of 16 issues that young people care most about, according to a Harvard poll, whereas the economy ranks first. Student debt ranks at the bottom of the 16 issues.

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Biden’s agenda is set by out-of-touch progressive activists and by social media distortions of what voters actually care about. He sees himself as some grand, historic statesman who is going to change the course of history every time he speaks (on the rare occasions he does so), as evidenced by Politico’s detailing of his “go-big approach.” Meanwhile, everyone else sees him as a doddering, incompetent man who can’t keep up with the demands of the job and isn’t focused on any issues that people actually care about.

Biden’s unpopularity is historic enough that Trump, the man Biden beat in 2020 who is himself historically unpopular, is leading in several polls, including in swing states, in a way you would not expect from a candidate running against an incumbent. Biden is bumbling his way toward an embarrassing loss that would cement him as a historic figure indeed — just not in the arrogant way that Biden thinks.