This was a historic speech.
But not in the way any Biden administration official or crony would describe it. I can't wait to see the incompetent press secretary Jean-Pierre try to spin this one when questioned.
Neve before in this nation's history has any president used prime-time TV to make such a blatantly, politically-targeted assault on half of America. And who in their right mind would pick that visual setting for it? One description by Dave Portnoy was that the background "looks like the Soviet Union and Hitler had a baby." Others likened it more to something even more satanic.
Do Biden's handlers actually
want to start a civil war? I can't fathom that they possibly could, but most everything that comes out of this White House almost
looks like that's the goal. But I'm more shocked after last night than ever before.
Ben Shapiro Tweeted a photo of Biden in front of the creepy red and, yes, fascist-looking background and said, "That was the most demagogic, outrageous, and divisive speech I have ever seen from an American president. Joe Biden essentially declared all those who oppose him and his agenda enemies of the Republic. Truly shameful."
A fascinating correlation that I'd have to research to see if it's correct, but I heard someone on Fox remark that when Biden stays away from the White House (and he's spent about 40% of his time away so far during his administration), his poll numbers go up. When he's back and opening his mouth, his poll numbers go down. He spent most of the month of August away, and his approval rating inched up to 43%...at least as of the end of August and before he made that horrendous speech in Philly. He was at 38% as of August 1.
But even so, does this administration realize that the Mussolini-like assault against those who disagree with Biden's handlers is attacking
over half the U.S. voting population? At the beginning of August, 55% expressly
disapproved of the job Biden is doing.
From
a piece by Harold Maas this morning for
The Week:
If anyone has gone authoritarian, it's Biden, says David Harsanyi at The Federalist. He's the one with a tendency to rule by fiat when he can't get the people's elected representatives to bend to will, like last week when he "unilaterally 'forgave' student loans by executive decree." His use of the word "fascism" was the latest example of the left confusing, or conflating, "the blood-and-soil European variety with American nationalism — the kind that a few Nazis in Charlottesville embraced, but which is not even close to the predominant position of Republican voters." He seems to be forgetting that "it is the left that champions government intervention in the economy, with never-ending regulations, subsidies, and mandates that effectively allow for controlling the means of production." Leftists are the ones who want to nationalize things like health care and the energy sector. "If progressives have any limiting principles when it comes to intervention in our economic lives, I'd love to hear about them."
It's pretty clear what Biden is trying to do with his "deeply cynical" and historically inaccurate name-calling, says Tim Black at Spiked. "He is trying to position the Democrats as all that stands between America and fascism. A tactic that turns voting in the midterms from an important but mundane political act into a hyper-moralized choice between Good and Evil, between liberal democracy and fascist tyranny." He's pulling a fire alarm to distract Americans from the "actual issues at stake." When pressed, Biden couldn't even explain what "semi-fascism" means. That's because what he and other Democrats are trying to do by dismissing anyone who challenges them as fascist is remove "the need for Biden and Co. to defend their actual policies, not to mention the incumbent president's wretched record in office."
During the speech, Town Hall reporter Mia Cathell Tweeted: "Nothing screams unity like a backdrop of blood red lighting and Marines positioned behind Biden as he shouts with raised clenched fists from the podium."
On Truth Social, Donald Trump responded:
"If you look at the words and meaning of the awkward and angry Biden speech tonight, he threatened America, including with the possible use of military force. He must be insane, or suffering from late stage dementia! Someone should explain to Joe Biden, slowly but passionately, that MAGA means, as powerfully as mere words can get, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! If he doesn’t want to Make America Great Again, which through words, action, and thought, he doesn’t, then he certainly should not be representing the United States of America!"
From where I sit, I
do agree with Joe Biden on a pivotal, fundamental issue.
We
are experiencing what is shaping up to be an existential threat to our democracy. To the very history, nature, and spirit of our great Republic.
But Biden is gaslighting, naming the wrong villain. The threat is from his very administration, the puppet-master handlers behind the scenes, the leftist faction of the democrat party, and their obsequious mouthpieces, the mainstream media.
