Why Does Biden Think He’s ‘Saving America’s Soul’?
He hypocritically casts the election as a holy war.
by Rob Crisell
October 18, 2020, 12:13 AM
On April 25, 2019, Joe Biden revealed that America is in the middle of a spiritual civil war.
In a speech announcing his candidacy for the 2020 Democratic nomination, Biden identified the seminal event he says inspired him to pick up his metaphorical sword. It was a 2017 “Unite the Right†rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white supremacists clashed with Antifa members and others over the contentious issue of removing Confederate monuments:
[W]e saw Klansmen and white supremacists and neo-Nazis come out in the open, their crazed faces illuminated by torches, veins bulging, and baring the fangs of racism…. And that’s when we heard the words of the president of the United States that stunned the world and shocked the conscience of this nation. He said there were, quote, “some very fine people on both sides.â€
After this lurid, emotionally charged, and totally discredited story (Trump explicitly condemned the white supremacists at the event — the “very fine people†were those on both sides of the statue removal debate), he declared,
We are in the battle for the soul of this nation.
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