Retreat: White House declares Republicans, Manchin, Sinema not segregationists and traitors "as humans," or something
Ed Morrissey Jan 15, 2022 11:31 AM ET
As what, then? Iguanas? Let’s go back to the speech Joe Biden gave in Atlanta on Tuesday, the demagogic meltdown from which even Dick Durbin distanced himself. The same speech, in fact, about which Jen Psaki called criticism “hilarious” just 48 hours prior to this new spin. This is what Biden actually said, according to the White House transcript:
So, I ask every elected official in America: How do you want to be remembered?
At consequential moments in history, they present a choice: Do you want to be the si- — on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?
That language unmistakably accuses opponents of Biden’s bill to have taken the side of a traitor to the US (Davis) and brutal segregationists (Connor and Wallace, the latter who later recanted). That poisonous demagoguery cares not a whit for principled opposition to Congress overreaching its constitutional authority on state elections, for attacks on very popular voter-ID policies that have majority support even among black and Hispanic voters, and for the absurd 6:1 public-match funding of congressional campaigns. Biden painted his opposition as traitors and racists using the crudest form of demagoguery possible in one of the worst presidential speeches of modern times.
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