The Biden administration’s “incoherence” could wind up costing them major losses in the coming years, according to The Washington Post. After President Biden’s mixed messaging promising relaxed entry into the country spurred a massive border crisis the paper speculates the Democrat Party will be paying the price of the mistake for year-and elections to come.
According to Fox News:
“In its apparent desperation to fashion an immigration strategy that will impose order on increasingly out-of-control migration, the Biden administration has unleashed a torrent of words and goals untethered to specific policies and timetables,” the Post wrote. “Officials have effectively reversed and rolled back some of the Trump administration’s most pernicious policies, but without a clear road map to address the immediate crisis — a decades-high surge in illegal border-crossing — or the long-term challenge driving migration: dysfunction, disorder and decay in Central America.”
The Post noted that Vice President Kamala Harris laid out a longterm strategy to address the factors in Central America currently driving illegal immigration, but that it was missing an actual plan for action. It added her “convoluted messaging” telling migrants not to attempt the journey to the U.S., while also scrapping or relaxing measures to dissuade the journey, had been a “failure.”
“That failure is measurable, and it is politically toxic,” the Post wrote before detailing the “staggering” number of apprehensions seen at the border this year.
“For the most part, the administration’s impulses are humane. However, they have driven a policy whose incoherence has yielded pressure at the border that may cost the Democrats control of one or both houses of Congress in next year’s midterm elections. So far, there is nothing in the administration’s short- or long-term strategizing that is likely to shift that dynamic,” it added.
This isn’t the first time that some have speculated that the Democrat Party’s more progressive measures could cost the party valuable elections. The “Defund the Police” movement has also been criticized by experts on the left and right as being a major tool to use against the Democrats as most American cities have struggled with increased violence over the past year.
