And many of us have no confidence whatsoever that Biden is competent enough, smart enough, or brave enough to avoid nuclear war if his rhetoric or his policies provoke Russian President Vladimir Putin to attack NATO.

He's brought massive budget deficits back into vogue, with this year's red ink totaling at least $2 trillion. And he doesn't have the pandemic as an excuse. This is "Bidenomics." Despite a robust job market, GDP growth is sluggish and his promised "green" transformation doesn't appear to be on the horizon.

We're only 2.13 million Level 2 and 172,000 Level 3 public EV chargers short of what's needed by 2030. Currently, there are 126,500 Level 2 and 20,431 Level 3 charging stations. But Biden insists we're going to transition to mostly electric vehicles by 2035.

There is little doubt that Joe Biden is among the worst presidents since the end of World War II. But is the country "finished" if he's re-elected in 2024?

Donald Trump thinks so.

"If we don't get back, I really believe this country is finished," he said. "I really believe that. I hate to say it. It's horrible," Trump said at a campaign stop in South Carolina.

Surviving bad presidents is this country's specialty. Take James Buchanan, for example. If you like historical "what ifs," Buchanan is the most fascinating example of what might have happened if someone else had been president from 1856-60.

Buchanan didn't understand the nation's divisions. He sleepwalked through the crises that led to the civil war. But the nation was extremely unlucky in 1856 because the Republican candidate wasn't much better. The vainglorious John Fremont was equally at sea when it came to the secession crisis.