According to the web site Five Thirty-eight, President Biden's approval rating is lower than any other President's at this point in his term except one -- Donald Trump. I do not necessarily put great stock in polls but they can be useful if correctly performed. And these polling figures are alarming.
They are more so in light of Maureen Dowd's column in today's New York Times. The column "Can Dems [sic] Dodge Doomsday?") speaks clearly to the matter of the polls. With experienced and succesful political operatives such as James Carville and David Axelrod sounding the alarm, Americans who care should be duly frightened of what a Republican. i.e., fascist take-over of Congress would mean. At a minimum it would mean Congressional investigations of all the wrong things -- Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton (yes, the Trumpistas are still interested), and certainly an end to trying to hold the Betrayers of January 6, '21, accountable. Court nominees would be blocked, and any Supreme Court vacancies near the general election of 2024 would most likely be held up entirely. Democratic chances of holding the White House in 2024 could well be ruined.
As one politico put it, "Washington is always the last to know." But Democrats near and far must get moving immediately in order to keep American democracy intact -- and fascism at bay.
