{"id":1453823,"date":"2022-04-26T08:16:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T12:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1453823"},"modified":"2022-04-26T08:16:29","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T12:16:29","slug":"democrats-have-nothing-to-offer-voters-so-theyre-banking-on-smearing-and-censoring-their-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-have-nothing-to-offer-voters-so-theyre-banking-on-smearing-and-censoring-their-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Have Nothing To Offer Voters So They\u2019re Banking On Smearing And Censoring Their Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-have-nothing-to-offer-voters-so-theyre-banking-on-smearing-and-censoring-their-opposition%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1453823&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WHCOS\/status\/1518295796554342402\">offered<\/a> an interesting insight into Democrats\u2019 2022 midterm election strategy on Sunday, musing about French President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s ability to win reelection despite a 36 percent approval rating, implying a similar possibility for U.S. President Joe Biden. Instead of trying to turn Biden\u2019s sinking approval ratings around by ditching failed policies, Democrats seem content with their underwater numbers so long as they can drive Republicans\u2019 popularity even lower with smears and censorship.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image-27.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-271214\" width=\"526\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image-27.png 707w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image-27-274x300-1.png 274w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Biden\u2019s approval rating is at 40.9 percent, according to the RealClear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/other\/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html\">aggregate<\/a>, although a Quinnipiac poll has him as low as 35 percent and a CNBC poll has him at 38 percent. A February <a href=\"https:\/\/maristpoll.marist.edu\/polls\/npr-pbs-newshour-marist-national-poll-the-biden-administration-heading-into-the-state-of-the-union-address-february-2022\">NPR\/PBS NewsHour\/Marist poll<\/a> reported that 56 percent of Americans thought Biden\u2019s first year in office was a failure, and the month before a mere <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/18\/besides-trump-biden-is-the-most-unpopular-president-in-80-years\/\">25 percent<\/a> were \u201csatisfied\u201d with his administration.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has helped drive its own approval ratings into the ground with crisis after self-induced crisis. Democrat-led Covid lockdowns and ballooning federal spending have caused the worst inflationary crisis in decades, coupled with energy prices that were on the rise even before Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine thanks to Biden\u2019s war on oil and gas. Destabilization in Ukraine and a botched withdrawal from Afghanistan may top the list of Biden\u2019s most deadly mess-ups, but they\u2019re far from the only line items.<\/p>\n<p>From a first-day executive order <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/01\/21\/on-day-one-biden-destroys-womens-sports-with-anti-science-executive-order\/\">requiring<\/a>\u00a0that schools ignore the biological differences between male and female students from the athletic field to the bathroom if they wish to continue receiving federal funding, and keeping those same schools closed for months, to bragging about working with Big Tech to silence dissent, exacerbating a record-setting crisis at the U.S. Southern border, ousting people from their jobs with medical mandates, encouraging kids to chop off their genitals, and colluding with the National School Boards Association to smear parents as domestic terrorists, the Biden team has done <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/20\/a-scandal-for-every-month-the-biggest-botches-failures-and-mess-ups-of-joe-bidens-first-12-months-in-office\/\">everything possible<\/a> to alienate voters. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Biden\u2019s radical legislative agenda has crashed and burned, leaving him with nothing to offer voters but a list of failures. Biden <em>could<\/em> choose to learn from these mistakes and respond by securing the border, unhampering American oil production, respecting parents and free speech, and protecting minors from predatory sex propaganda. But instead, the White House is tacitly admitting it doesn\u2019t care that Americans don\u2019t like its agenda.<\/p>\n<p>How is that a workable election strategy? It isn\u2019t, unless you can convince voters to hate or fear your opposition even more. Democrats spent all four years of former President Donald Trump\u2019s presidency pushing the Clinton campaign-funded Russia collusion <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/18\/spygate-101-a-primer-on-the-russia-collusion-hoaxs-years-long-plot-to-take-down-trump\/\">hoax<\/a>, aided by propagandists in the legacy media. When The New York Post broke news of sensational and incriminating Biden family scandals in the weeks leading up to the 2020 election, Big Tech and big media collaborated to nuke the story and censor those who tried to share it. <\/p>\n<p>Those are just two of the most explosive examples. There are countless more of tech companies censoring conservative perspectives (including a sitting president), journalists running cover for Democrat conspiracy theories while lying about Republicans, and even tech barons like Mark Zuckerberg <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/rigged-how-the-media-big-tech-and-the-democrats-seized-our-elections\/9781684512591\">funneling<\/a> nearly half a billion dollars to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/12\/the-2020-election-wasnt-stolen-it-was-bought-by-mark-zuckerberg\/\">take over<\/a> local election offices.<\/p>\n<p>In a fair system, a president with approval ratings that are underwater by double digits would be worried about his next election, and probably worried enough to be making some big changes. But Biden has done nothing but double down. That signals just how confident his people are in their ability to collude with the censorship regime to smear their opponents or keep their arguments from reaching voters entirely. Censorship is a powerful political tool, and it\u2019s part of why the laptop class is so <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/14\/the-left-is-freaking-out-over-elon-musk-because-twitter-rigs-the-game-for-democrats\/\">panicked<\/a> at the idea that someone with slightly more respect for free speech than they now owns the Twittersphere. <\/p>\n<p>All of Biden\u2019s disasters point to a Republican victory in the midterms this fall, but Democrats\u2019 unwillingness to let nosedives in the polls budge their cultural battles should be a chilling reminder to Republicans that Democrats haven\u2019t played by the rules for years. The collaborators in the Biden White House, in the legacy media, and in Big Tech are so confident in their backroom <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/29\/7-insane-things-i-just-learned-about-how-u-s-elections-are-rigged\/\">rigging<\/a> that they don\u2019t think they need to listen to what American voters think.<\/p>\n<p>This should put urgency and tangible political reforms behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2022\/03\/28\/new_peer-reviewed_research_finds_evidence_of_2020_voter_fraud_147378.html\">broad and bipartisan desire<\/a> among Americans to ensure American election processes are beyond reproach.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elle Reynolds is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. You can follow her work on Twitter at @_etreynolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain offered an interesting insight into Democrats\u2019 2022 midterm election strategy on Sunday, musing about French President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s ability to win reelection despite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":500,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1453823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1453823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}