In my latest at The American Thinker, I explore the Biden Doctrine.
As readers know, we treat liberal as pertaining to the individual and conservative as pertaining to the group. The Biden Doctrine reflects an extreme liberal doctrine giving almost absolute priority to the individual over the group. In the president's eyes, there is no national interest, only soldiers to be kept from harm's way. There are no criminals, just misguided youth. There are no illegal immigrants, only economic migrants.
By virtually ignoring the concerns of the broader society, the Biden Doctrine encourages individuals to challenge laws and accepted norms. The result is a failure of deterrence. The Doctrine encouraged President Putin to invade Ukraine, and the underlying philosophy fuels soaring crime rates and record-setting illegal immigration. Moreover, having failed at deterrence, the Doctrine offers no remedy for the violation of laws and standards. Rather than military intervention in Ukraine, the White House is focused on ex-post sanctions; rather than keeping criminals in jail, shoplifting should be decriminalized; rather than deporting illegal immigrants, the administration distributes them around the country in the dead of night. All of these problems stem from a single root: a misplaced emphasis on individual rights and liberty at the expense of social order.
The result is predictable chaos and tragedy, just as we see in Ukraine.