Let’s see some of this administration’s achievements that “Biden is better than average,” a headline from an editorial in May.

In the handling of Afghanistan, America has lost credibility abroad. China, Iran, North Korea and Russia are plotting how best to exploit a global military opportunity.

A stable economy, energy independence, vast surpluses of food, a professional judiciary, law enforcement and a credible criminal justice system are dissolving.

Gas and diesel prices are hitting historic levels. Inflation is at a 40-year high.

There is no southern border.

Murder and assault are spiraling.

Baby formula has disappeared from many shelves.

Never has a White House approved mobs of protesters showing up at Supreme Court justices’ homes in response to the reversal of Roe v. Wade.

The United States has the largest combined gas, coal and oil in the world. It possesses the know-how to build the safest pipelines and to ensure the cleanest energy development on the planet.

Inflation was a deliberate Biden choice. He kept printing trillions of dollars for short-term political advantage.

In all of this, is ideology overruling common sense?

When revolutionaries undermine the system, earn the antipathy of the people and face looming disaster at the polls, it is then they prove most dangerous – as we shall see over the next few months.

Ken Fusco

Durango