Could Biden’s Divisive Rhetoric Cost Democrats Congress?
His attempt to stigmatize millions of voters instead of addressing real issues may be a fatal blunder.
by David Catron
September 4, 2022, 11:24 PM
In President Joe Biden’s 2007 memoir, Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics, he wrote that the late Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) gave him the best advice he ever received: “Joe, never attack another man’s motive, because you don’t know his motive.” Judging from Biden’s increasingly belligerent speeches, he has forgotten Mansfield’s eminently wise counsel. This was rendered abundantly clear during his Thursday speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Standing before a backdrop that looked as if it had been designed by Leni Riefenstahl, he attacked the motives of half the electorate.
After declaring, “I’m an American President — not the President of red America or blue America, but of all America,” Biden nonetheless insisted that “MAGA Republicans” don’t quite make the cut. Unlike the late Mansfield, he has evidently discovered a way to divine the inner motives of this particular group of Americans, and he has concluded that they are so extremist that they constitute a threat to this country. Biden warned his audience that we are “in a battle for the soul of this nation” and that the enemy is a GOP largely dominated by these evil MAGA Republicans and their diabolical leader — former President Donald Trump. He said:
MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people. They refuse to accept the results of a free election. And they’re working right now, as I speak, in state after state to give power to decide elections in America to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself. MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards — backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.
The response to this bellicose oration and its creepy optics wasn’t quite what Biden and his White House handlers expected. It was too much even for some CNN talking heads. New Day host Brianna Keilar, for example, noted that the use of the military as a prop for an overtly political speech was inappropriate: “Whatever you think of this speech the military is supposed to be apolitical. Positioning Marines in uniform behind President Biden for a political speech flies in the face of that.” The network’s chief national affairs correspondent, Jeff Zeleny, also expressed reservations. Naturally, both were attacked by the Twitter mob.
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