NY Post Editorial Board: Joe Biden & Co. Are Doing As Much Damage To The U.S. As They Can Before They Leave

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Joe Biden and the Dem apparat around him have made it plain: They are going to do as much damage to America as they can on the way out the door. 

Last week brought a record number of presidential pardons, including 1,500 commutations of the sentences of “nonviolent” felons, most of whom were already serving their sentences at home after being sprung from prison during COVID.

Except the White House upped the count by overlooking some truly heinous offenses: a Pennsylvania judge who took bribes to send kids to a for-profit “detention” center; an Illinois clerk who embezzled over $53 million from a town of just 15,000 people; a Massachusetts woman convicted for a fentanyl-trafficking conspiracy.

And that’s just what’s come out in the first days as local media across America scrutinize the long list.

All this, to cover for Joe’s top priority: the pardon for his crooked son Hunter. 

And what a pardon it was: not just getting him off the hook for the crimes he’d pled guilty to, but an unprecedented blanket amnesty for anything and everything Hunter might have done over an 11-year span. 

And this after the prez swearing up and down the public square that he’d never even think of doing such a thing. 

If there’s a more direct way of announcing to America that all their suspicions about elite self-dealing are true — that rules and regulations and laws don’t matter if you have enough cash and clout — we’d love to hear about it. 

Small wonder that a meager 22% of Americans back the pardon and tons of Biden’s fellow Dems, like Sen. Amy Klobuchar, primary challenger Rep. Dean Phillips, Colo. Gov. Jared Polis and even his own former top aide Anita Dunn all have cried foul.

But doing favors for his family isn’t the admin’s only focus.

The staffers and operators around our senile president are ramming through a laundry list of progressive demands, all spitting in the face of average Americans.

They have Joe promising to do one more round of his student-debt giveaways, after he’s stuck the taxpayers with more than $175 billion. 

There’s the absurd work-from-home deal Biden struck with the union for some 42,000 workers in the Social Security Administration, further lowering the professional demands on a big chunk of our parasitic federal workforce and sabotaging Team Trump’s planned government-efficiency drive. 

Joe’s even threatening a veto against a bipartisan bill that would create a slate of new federal judgeships, because he and his allies don’t want Trump filling them. 

So much for those norms the Democrats have been screaming about for a decade! 

And the apparatchiks are rushing to shovel the last of Biden’s congressionally authorized billions out the door, on boondoggles like fed grants for rural high-speed internet, CHIPS Act handouts and other nonsense prog faves. 

In other words: Biden & Co. failed spectacularly during their one term, despite having every major media outlet and much of corporate America in the tank for them. 

They engineered, through a combo of bad policy and sneering arrogance aimed at voters, a generational whomping for Dems.

And now, instead of having learned a thing from it, they’re doubling, tripling, quadrupling down. 

Donald Trump has a lot of cleanup work to do once he takes office. 

Good thing America’s with him on that.