"President Biden and his supporters project their own authoritarian impulses onto Mr. Trump because they don’t want to come to terms with their own illiberalism. The examples in the Biden presidency are rife.
With the stroke of a pen, Mr. Biden tried to cancel half a trillion dollars in student debt, ban evictions and mandate Covid vaccines—each of which the Supreme Court blocked because Congress never gave the president the authority to do so. Even after losing at the high court, his administration has used other regulatory means to write off about $770 billion in student debt.
Mr. Biden has abused his authority under the 1906 Antiquities Act to wall off nearly
1.5 million acres of land from fossil-fuel development. He’s reconstructed the Clean Air Act to shut down coal and gas power plants and ban gasoline-powered cars. And he has ignored Congress’s command to lease federal land for oil and gas drilling and dallied on holding auctions even after being ordered by a federal court to do so.
His administration has failed to enforce the nation’s immigration laws, paroling millions of migrants into the U.S. rather than detaining them at the border or holding them in Mexico while they await hearings. The
immigration-court backlog has doubled to two million since 2019 amid a surge of migrants exploiting lax law enforcement.
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The top brass has threatened social-media companies with retribution, including antitrust lawsuits, if they don’t censor speech that progressives dislike. The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in September ruled that Biden officials had violated the First Amendment by colluding with tech platfoms to squelch politically disfavored speech about Covid and elections.
A phalanx of regulators—the Federal Trade Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission, National Labor Relations Board and Justice Department—has targeted
Elon Musk’s companies for sundry regulatory infractions after the tech entrepreneur criticized Democrats’ leftward lurch and recommended Americans vote for Republicans in the 2022 midterms."
Biden and his supporters try to excuse and deflect attention from their own authoritarian actions.
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