10 times Joe Biden acted like a dictator

The left and its corporate media have been having another panic about Donald Trump. This time, they’re calling Trump a would-be dictator. Whenever the left accuses the right of something, it’s almost guaranteed the left is doing that very thing. So who is really acting like a dictator right now? Joe Biden has been governing like a dictator since day one.

Believe it or not, even the New York Times said so after Biden’s first week in office when he signed a boatload of executive orders. You know it must be bad when the New York Times editorial board suggests “legislating through Congress is a better path.”

To keep their power, dictatorships must try to control the spread of ideas they find threatening.

This is not a South American-style dictatorship where political enemies are rounded up and executed. It’s a nice progressive-style dictatorship where opponents are monitored, or censored online, or get a knock on the door from an IRS agent.

You might wonder how Biden can be a dictator if he is practically senile. He can be both thanks to the administrative state. It’s a well-oiled machine. Biden is just the tip of the spear, the public face reading the teleprompter lines that he’s fed. And that’s on a good day.

It’s the left-wing activists in charge. It’s the Woodrow Wilson progressive dictatorship model. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a major fan of Wilson. He and his band of merry progressives took Wilson’s model to the next level with New Deal controls. Wilson and FDR both pulled off their dictatorships during wartime. Later, Lyndon Johnson tried to do it by declaring his own “war on poverty.”

In an ideal progressive dictatorship, you have control of Congress to rubber-stamp your ideas. In Biden’s case, he doesn’t need to pass legislation any more since he has the vast executive wing of federal government built by Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.

Here is a rundown of 10 ways Biden has acted as a dictator.

The eviction moratorium

Biden’s eviction moratorium in 2021 simply ignored property rights and placed undue financial hardship on small businesses. Ultimately, the Supreme Court correctly struck it down.

Unconstitutional vaccine mandates

Biden’s September 2021 executive order required vaccines for all federal workers and federal contractors, health care workers, the military, and all employers with more than 100 employees. Again, the Supreme Court struck most of it down. In his announcement, he said: “This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. … We’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin.”

Student loan cancellation

I bet you didn’t know that a president can just wave his magic wand and make loan debt disappear. Well, technically he can’t, but that hasn’t stopped Biden. Last summer, yet again, the Supreme Court shut down this plan as completely unconstitutional. But in true dictator style, Biden treats Supreme Court decisions as roadblocks to drive around. Just a few weeks ago, he canceled another $5 billion in student loan debt. This brings his grand cancellation total to $136 billion.

The Disinformation Governance Board

In 2022, Biden named Nina Jankowicz as the first censorship czar of the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board, and she sounded perfect for the role. After all, she had called the Hunter Biden laptop story nothing more than “a Trump campaign product.” When the disinformation board was later shelved, the Washington Post blamed it on “right-wing attacks.” To keep their power, dictatorships must try to control the spread of ideas they find threatening.

Destroying American energy

During his first week in office, Biden canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline. He stopped new oil and natural gas leasing on public lands and offshore, even though a court ordered him to resume the lease sales as required by law. Then he drained our Strategic Petroleum Reserve to its lowest level since 1984. Then, since socialist dictators stick together, Biden reduced sanctions on Venezuela, allowing the country to resume pumping oil there and exporting 19% of it back to us.

An enormous land-grab

Biden claims he is “protecting” 1.5 million acres of public land so far as part of his “30 by 30” plan. He wants to protect “at least 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030.” Biden didn’t come up with this idea on his own, of course. The Center for American Progress came up with the “30 by 30” program in a 2019 report titled “How Much Nature Should America Keep?”

John Podesta, the guy who started the Center for American Progress, is now replacing John Kerry as Biden’s climate czar. Podesta will officially just be a “coordinator” in the position. That way he won’t face confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Moreover, he won’t have to answer questions about Kerry, who refused to hand over simple information like who was on his staff, his expenses as climate czar, and what he actually worked on. It’s a great way to keep your radical climate agenda hidden from oversight.

This is how you run a modern progressive dictatorship: erasing the lines between left-wing dark money think tanks and the executive branch, sidestepping the Constitution, and avoiding Congress by working through government agencies to accomplish whatever the activists want.

The National School Boards Association letter

In 2021, the NSBA asked Biden for help and urged that parental threats be classified as “domestic terrorism.” It turns out that the NSBA coordinated with the White House and the Justice Department on the letter.

Attorney General Merrick Garland testified before Congress that the Justice Department was not using counterterrorism tools to target parents. Whistleblowers later said, however, that the Justice Department and FBI were investigating parents across the country with a “threat tag” created by the FBI’s counterterrorism division.

Targeting pro-life demonstrators

In 2022 alone, the Justice Department charged 34 people for blocking access to abortion clinics. Meanwhile, in the same period, there were 81 reported attacks on pregnancy centers and 130 attacks on Catholic churches since a draft of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision was leaked. Yet only two individuals have been charged related to thosecrimes.

When Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) questioned Garland about the disparity, the attorney general said it was because the pro-lifers committed their “crimes” during the daytime when their faces could be seen, while those who vandalized pregnancy centers and churches did so in the nighttime. Do you really buy that? As Senator Lee asked Garland, “How do you explain the disparity by reference to anything other than politicization?”

Trashing the First Amendment

Biden has been cracking down on the First Amendment by working with Big Tech platforms to censor speech on topics including COVID origins, masks, vaccines, lockdowns, the Hunter Biden laptop, climate change, mail-in voting, and election integrity. The censorship happened even when the social media companies knew the suppressed information was true.

Last year, Federal District Court Judge Terry Doughty called this case “the most massive attack against free speech in United States history." Even after an injunction, the Biden White House is pressing on with its legal challenge, claiming the government’s free speech is being violated. The Supreme Court will hear the case this year.

In the meantime, we continue learning more about Biden’s censorship efforts, including the revelation earlier this month by U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that the White House pressured Amazon to censor books related to COVID-19. Amazon caved and triggered a “do not promote” policy for books that were critical of vaccines.

Forcing transgenderism on schools

During Biden’s very first week in office, he signed an order declaring support for boys participating as girls in girls’ sports. In 2022, he signed an executive order expanding access to sex-change treatments for kids.

In addition, recent rule changes to Title IX will force school employees to report any improper use of a transgender person’s preferred pronouns to the Title IX coordinator for that campus. More policing of speech sounds totally constitutional.

Biden has been in the White House for three years and issued 131 executive orders so far — a little less than an average of one per week. During his first year in office alone, he issued 77 orders, almost double Obama’s first year, and 40% more than Trump’s first year.

These are dictator moves. Abusing executive power. Skipping past Congress. Ignoring the Constitution. Trampling on individual liberties. Targeting political opponents. This is how Biden delivers on his inaugural address promise to “restore the soul and to secure the future of America.”