{"id":206576,"date":"2021-03-19T22:23:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T19:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/heres-why-biden-is-making-big-mistakes-on-crime-welfare-and-immigration\/"},"modified":"2021-03-19T22:23:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T19:23:37","slug":"heres-why-biden-is-making-big-mistakes-on-crime-welfare-and-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/heres-why-biden-is-making-big-mistakes-on-crime-welfare-and-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"#Here’s why Biden is making big mistakes on crime, welfare and immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Here’s why Biden is making big mistakes on crime, welfare and immigration<\/strong>”
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How to explain President Biden\u2019s ideological transformation over the years? Perhaps it\u2019s the same as the explanation of why the chameleon\u2019s complexion changes when he moves from desert to forest: adaptation to local terrain.<\/p>\n

About the Biden transformation there can be no question. The senator who opposed government financing of abortions for 30-some years now supports it\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and up through the ninth month of pregnancy.<\/p>\n

The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman who sponsored and bragged about the tough provisions of the 1994 crime bill now echoes almost the entire Black Lives Matter mantra.<\/p>\n

The politician who supported the welfare reform bill that House Speaker Newt Gingrich kept pressing until President Bill Clinton, facing re-election, decided to sign it in 1996 has now concocted \u201cCOVID relief\u201d legislation that includes multithousand-dollar payments to single mothers with no work requirements.<\/p>\n

Biden came to public office in the 1965-75 decade, when violent crime and welfare dependency roughly trip<\/a>led and, as a senator, he supported measures to reverse those trends and reduce the ensuing ill effects, which were particularly devastating in America\u2019s black neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

As a presidential candidate in 2019 and 2020 and as president now, however, he is supporting policies that threaten to recreate that vicious cycle, as murders skyrocket and the immedia<\/a>te need for welfare payments seems minimal at a time when employment looks set to rise as COVID-19 restrictions fade.<\/p>\n

Biden began his Senate career just as the unintended consequences of the 1965 immigration act were kicking in, ultimately resulting in 11 million illegal immigrants and lowered wages for low-skilled American citizens and legal residents.<\/p>\n

Now he\u2019s presiding over the reversal of the effective border controls former President Donald Trump finally put together. He\u2019s inviting untold thousands who will likely swell the illegal population.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s some ideological transformation. It represents adaptation to significantly changing local terrain.<\/p>\n

If the United States were starting from scratch, we wouldn\u2019t create a separate state of Delaware. It houses only one-quarter of 1 percent of the nation\u2019s population. Its share of land area is even tinier. Some 57 percent of its residents live in New Castle County, mostly affluent suburban turf that\u2019s part of the Philadelphia metro area.<\/p>\n

But Delaware has made its contributions. It was the first state to ratify the Constitution. It was a slave state, but 92 percent of its blacks were free by 1860, and it stuck with the Union. It\u2019s the home of DuPont, an innovator in chemicals since 1802. <\/p>\n

During the first half of Biden\u2019s career, Delaware was also a political bellwether. It voted within 2 percent of the national average in presidential elections from 1960 to 1992. And in this small state, voters are used to having close, personal contact with their high elected officials. <\/p>\n

The Thursday after elections is Return Day, when winning and losing candidates of both parties app<\/a>ear in parades in Georgetown, in southern Sussex County.<\/p>\n

Biden, temperamentally gregarious, was a natural in this environment. I remember interviewing him by phone in May 1972, when the 29-year-old New Castle County council member explained exactly how he\u2019d defeat a popular Republican who\u2019d held statewide office for 26 years. He didn\u2019t need political consultants to tell him how to talk\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and listen\u00a0\u2014\u00a0to voters. <\/p>\n

As senator, Biden famously returned by train to Delaware every night, with plenty of chances to schmooze with voters while shopping, after church, when lunching with the kids. He was alert to voters\u2019 concerns, amplified by Philly local TV news<\/a>, about crime and urban decay.<\/p>\n

His voting record reflected those concerns, and it also dissuaded potential strong competitors. For 30 years, he and his Republican colleague William Roth were easily elected and re-elected.<\/p>\n

But in the 1990s, the local terrain changed. Affluent suburbs in the Northeast and Midwest trended Democratic, and so did Delaware. Starting in 2000, it has averaged 57 percent Democratic in presidential races, 7 percent above the national average. Roth lost that year, and Delaware is now rated safe Democratic.<\/p>\n

That left Biden with zero worries about re-election and more in sync with a Senate Democratic caucus that, in my observation over the last 20 years, has been more cohesive and like-minded than Senate Republicans.<\/p>\n

Then, in 2008, Biden was elected vice president and, installed in the West Wing and the VP\u2019s residence for the next eight years, less exposed to nonliberal opinions, even as the Democratic administration and party became more lockstep liberal.<\/p>\n

By the 2020 campaign cycle, he was taken to voicing woke opinions, suggesting that perhaps this family man has been influenced by woke young family members.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s my explanation for why one of the few politicians who has personally witnessed over a half-century the damage inflicted by policy mistakes on crime, welfare and immigration seems determined to make the same policy mistakes again. <\/p>\n

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