Democrats are ecstatic that President Joe Biden didn’t trip over his sneakers on his way to the State of the Union address, or wander off into some indecipherable rant about Corn Pop. Indeed, they are so jazzed by Biden’s amped-up speech that they’re reinventing the past three years, hoping voters will forget the soaring inflation, rampant crime and overrun border that have made Biden the most unpopular president of modern times.

Biden’s posse — the legacy media, Democrat surrogates and the billionaires backing Scranton Joe — want voters to deny what they see and experience every day.

MSNBC host Chris Hayes is a prime example, recently posting on X: “Compared to four years ago when Trump was president, the country is safer, more prosperous, and more energy independent. There are more people working, making higher wages, and more people starting new businesses.

"These are just the facts," says @chrislhayes.

His happy talk trended for several hours, with Biden supporters applauding his enthusiasm (and creativity). But are those really the facts? No.

Let’s start with Hayes’s claim that the country “is safer.” Last fall, a Gallup poll found that 63 percent of registered voters thought crime was a “very” or “extremely” serious problem — the highest reading in decades. Are all those people wrong?

The Council on Criminal Justice reports that in U.S. cities, “Most violent offenses remained elevated in 2023........

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