Joe Biden “gave the speech of a dictator, in the style of a dictator, in the visual of a dictator, using the words of a dictator.” So said former Trump aide Stephen Miller in response to Biden’s Thursday address, a speech that should live in infamy. In it Biden claimed that MAGA supporters were a threat to our Republic, though now he’s walking back his statements. But is this a bell that can be un-rung?
And, in truth, Biden did illustrate well the threat to our civilization — the one he and his leftist handlers pose. For the record, here’s a representative sampling of Biden’s Thursday rhetoric:
Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic….
… 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.
… MAGA forces are determined to take this country 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.
… MAGA Republicans have made their choice. They embrace anger. They thrive on chaos. They live not in the light of truth but in the shadow of lies….
Democrats, independents, mainstream Republicans: We must be stronger, more determined, and more committed to saving American democracy than MAGA Republicans are to — to destroying American democracy.
… MAGA Republicans look at America and see carnage and darkness and despair. They spread fear and lies — lies told for profit and power.
This is the man, do note, who said upon being elected that he wanted to unite the country and tone down the rhetoric. Yet what he’s delivered instead was put well by WMAL talk show host Larry O’Connor. “This isn’t even ‘semi’ fascist,” O’Connor tweeted, referencing how Biden recently characterized the MAGA philosophy. “This is full monty Mussolini.”
Many were alarmed at Biden’s speech, viewing it as a further effort to demonize and ultimately pave the way for the persecution of his opposition. The most innocuous interpretation is that he aimed to divide the GOP by driving a wedge between the staunch MAGA contingent and the rest of the party as a midterm campaign strategy. Regardless, it may have caused blowback, for he has now changed his tune.
“I don’t consider any Trump supporter a threat to the country,” Biden said at the White House Friday, reports the Daily Mail.
“When people voted for Donald Trump — and support him now — they weren’t voting for attacking the capital,” Biden also stated. “They weren’t voting for overruling the election. They were going for a philosophy he put forward.”
“I do think anyone who calls for the use of violence, fails to condemn violence when it’s used, refuses to acknowledge an election has been won, insists upon changing the way in which the rules and we count votes, that is a threat to democracy,” he elaborated.
Yet even Biden’s revised claims are pure projection. Just consider what he said and what reality actually is.
Biden spoke of “anyone who calls for the use of violence.” Yet Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) approached doing so when appealing in 2018 for people to harass Trump officials. Democrat Scot Ross, then a member of the Wisconsin Ethics Commission, was even more explicit two years later. Angered over GOP plans to replace late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he told a co-ideologist, “F****** A…. If you can’t shut it down, burn it down.” And Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) actually encouraged “unrest in the streets” during a 2020 MSNBC interview.
More such examples are found in my 2020 essay “Violence, Inc.: A Leftist Enterprise.”
Biden also inveighed against anyone who “fails to condemn violence when it’s used.” Yet the entire Democratic establishment winked and nodded — and at least tacitly encouraged — 2020’s 600-plus nation-rending, left-wing riots. In addition:
• House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) actually called Antifa violence in Portland a “myth.”
• Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (D) described the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) armed takeover of part of her city as a “block party atmosphere” and a “summer of love.”
• House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) praised the 2011 left-wing occupation of the Wisconsin Capitol as an “impressive show of democracy in action.” Additionally, she responded to the 2020 toppling of a Christopher Columbus statue by saying, “People will do what they do.”
Biden also condemned anyone who “refuses to acknowledge an election has been won.” Has he forgotten the Russia-collusion hoax, whose central thesis was that Vladimir Putin somehow stole the 2016 election for Trump? How about Hillary Clinton, who asserted prior to her 2016 loss that questioning our electoral outcomes “denigrates” our system, but then did nothing but cast doubt on the system after Trump’s victory? What of Democrat Stacey Abrams, who repeatedly claimed she won 2018’s Georgia governor’s race — despite losing convincingly to Brian Kemp — and flat-out said at a 2019 fundraiser she won’t be a “good sport” and that “we don’t have to concede elections anymore”?
Lastly, Biden condemned anyone who “insists upon changing the way in which the rules [are applied] and [the way] we count votes.” Yet this is precisely what the Democrats did in 2020 with the widespread, Covid-pretext mail-in voting and, in particular, the unconstitutional and illegal changes in the way ballots were counted in Pennsylvania.
It would be comical if not so tragic: When outlining the threat to our Republic, Biden is literally describing himself and his party.
But while reality contradicts his words, at least Biden’s visuals were consistent. As former acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell tweeted:
And what could possibly explain this “mistake”? Well, sometimes, people just can’t help being what they are.
