Commentary

Since Joe Biden was inaugurated, it has been like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

Thousands started streaming across the southern border. No amount of exposure of this disregard for our nation’s border and the laws that keep them secure had any effect. The vice president was put in charge of the border and she did nothing.

For three years, we watched helplessly while migrants from around the world waded across the Rio Grande.

This went on until Kamala Harris was repositioned as the presidential candidate at the national convention, after Biden’s blundering debate performance with Donald J. Trump. Only then did the puppetmasters finally act.

Laken Riley was murdered by an illegal immigrant. Foreign gang members commandeered apartment complexes in Aurora, Colo. It is estimated thousands of murderers and rapists are now in the U.S. as foreign countries emptied their prisons.

They all walked into the U.S.; very few were identified and detained compared to the number now in the country.

Crime is up. Few weeks ago, the F.B.I. reported violent crime went down; now the numbers have been adjusted up. The F.B.I. lied and Donald Trump pointed it out in his debate with Harris.

In 1980, Ronald Reagan summed up the situation, apropos then as it is now: “Are you better off than you were four years ago? Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the store than it was four years ago? Is there more or less unemployment in the country than there was four years ago? Is America as respected throughout the world as it was?”

For the past four years, world actors like Putin and Xia and Ali Khamenei have been taking advantage of Biden’s weakness, exploiting his slow responses and lack of resolve to start wars and increase world tension. Let’s face it, it’s what Obama would do: lead from behind.

We’ve lost that characteristic that other world leaders couldn’t quantify: unpredictability. Very early in Reagan’s first term, the air traffic controllers went on strike. In their contract, striking was prohibited. Reagan didn’t hesitate or grovel. He fired them all. (At the time, my uncle was a senior controller and worked double shifts for over a year while new controllers were hired and trained.)

World leaders took notice of Reagan’s strong leadership, as did the mullahs who released the hostages held in Iran after 444 days so that they wouldn’t face Reagan’s decisive measures.

Trump’s life has been threatened two, possibly three times. Someone doesn’t want him to be re-elected. Eight years of Democrats asserting Trump is an “existential threat to democracy” has obviously prompted these assaults.

We now have our ballots in hand and have the ability to turn the United States around. Biden’s, some say Obama’s, policies have damaged America’s world credibility, national economy and rule of law.

Trump is a businessman who, to the chagrin of long-entrenched politicians, isn’t beholden to political donors, but wants what is best for America. In spite of all the opposition hurled at him during his four years as president, Trump’s policies impacted our country positively. We’re in the toilet with Biden in charge.

I’m voting Republican because the party’s smaller government, free-enterprise policies boost all Americans.