But sometimes it can't

The rule of Hanlon’s Razor advises us to “never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity”, but are Biden and his handlers truly just stupid, or do they have a plan? The editors at Issues and Insights are going with the latter, and I agree.

Deliberate and Intentional

[A]sk yourself, what would Biden be doing differently if his goal was to purposely send the country into a tailspin?

He set off a 40-decade-high inflation spiral with his $2 trillion “rescue” plan. He exacerbated supply-chain problems by paying people not to work. He threw open the borders to millions of illegal immigrants. He needlessly kept COVID mandates and restrictions in place. He worsened shortages of baby formula and spiking gasoline prices. He encouraged foreign adversaries with his disastrous Afghanistan retreat.

In every instance, Biden has said he and his top officials were “caught off guard.” In other words, his is pleading incompetence. The public has picked up on this, which is why most Americans now believe that “incompetent” is the word that best describes this president.

But incompetence doesn’t do Biden justice. In every case, Biden knew, or should have known, what would happen if he pushed his policies. Yet he did so anyway.

On inflation, even liberal economists were warning that Biden’s reckless $2 trillion “rescue” plan – which he signed after the economy had already roared back to life – would set off a ‘70s-style inflationary spiral.

“I think this is the least responsible macroeconomic policy we’ve had in the last 40 years,” is how Larry Summers described Biden’s spending plan before it became law. “There’s the real risk that macroeconomic policy will be very much destabilizing things.”

…. So, is the inflationary spiral an example of Biden’s incompetence, or did he deliberately press ahead with his “rescue” plan knowing it would fuel price increases, perhaps in hopes that “fighting” inflation would justify still more government interventions?

How about the Afghanistan debacle that left 13 American soldiers dead and who knows how many Americans stranded under Taliban rule? Biden repeatedly claimed that nobody could have predicted how fast the Taliban would take over the country once the U.S. announced its pullout.

Except, that’s not true. Biden’s withdrawal came despite the advice of his top military commanders, who said that the U.S. should leave a force of 2,500 in the country.

“I was present when that discussion occurred, and I am confident that the president heard all the recommendations and listened to them very thoughtfully,” Gen. Kenneth “Frank” McKenzie, commander of the U.S. Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee last September.

Biden ignored these commanders and then said he didn’t remember being told that.

So, was the bloody Afghan withdrawal – which likely encouraged Putin to invade Ukraine, and China to ramp up threats against Taiwan – due to Biden’s incompetence, or was it an intentional effort to weaken America’s standing in the world?

Much more at the link, but, after 16 months of this cabal’s attack on the country, who still needs convincing?