A few years ago, the media couldn't stop harping on about Joe Biden being "the great unifier," then last night he stood up in front of America and told everyone to pick a side.
As I wrote before the State of the Union, Biden's theme for the speech literally involved division as he was going to demand Americans to choose a side. It was a bad strategy for multiple reasons, but chief among them was that Biden didn't have the accomplishments necessary to ask people to side with him. As it stands, Americans have made the decision whose side they're on. Biden and the Democrats made that clear for the American people.
They're on their own, and as such, they're on their own side.
(READ: Joe Biden Wants to Know What Side Americans Are on, and I Can Clarify That for Him)
America is in a sharp decline. That much is clear. The media can try to dress it up all the live-long day (which for Biden ends at around 2 pm) but it's hard to convince the average American that Biden's administration has it all under control when everything from their gas to their rent, to their groceries has skyrocketed in price. Childcare costs are through the roof which only adds to the pressure as both parents have to work full time to make ends meet.
That's not even getting into the rising crime, the wide open border and the radicalism being pushed in our schools by Biden's party.
Biden's no stranger to division. He's been pushing it since day one, but over the course of his time in office, he's been strangely becoming more and more vehement in it, sometimes to the point of referencing things that could only be interpreted as threats of violence.
As my colleague Joe Cunningham wrote, Biden didn't mention Trump by name but he did invoke Godwin's Law when speaking about him:
The old man yelled at his own party. He refused to name Trump, but he referenced him. He never once spoke about working with Republicans, only demanding they join him and abandon "the former president," as he referred to him. But the message last night was Joe Biden stomping out any talk of insurgency within his own party.
There are still fractures within his own party, and he must attend to those. That's why he referred to equality and the civil rights movement so much. That's why he talked so much about unions and the middle class. That's why, within 30 seconds of talking, he was already referencing Hitler. He was telling his party that he was the man who would be standing against that.
We all know what Biden means by bringing up Hitler. He's attempting to paint the other side with that kind of evil, and if the theme of his speech is any indication, the spirit of Hitler exists in anyone who sides with Trump, or if we were to extrapolate that further, anyone who doesn't side with him.
It would have been one thing to say that anyone not on his side is simply on the wrong one, but let's remember some things. Biden didn't write this speech, it was written for him. The Democrat Party is soaked in radicalism and judging by the people who have been working under his administration, his staff definitely shares in the infection.
Calling the other side "Hitler" wasn't done to be bombastic or to paint a black-and-white picture for voters. It's highly likely that members of his staff truly believe that it's the Democrats vs. the neo-Nazis. To them, Trump represents the worst of America and the revival of everything they claim to hate despite embracing it themselves. Biden was blocked from coming to the Capitol because of pro-Hamas protesters after all, and these people are the very radical leftists the Democrat Party created.
This isn't the first time Biden and his party attempted to paint everyone who isn't as radical as they are as "extremists." I'll remind you they released a whole ad doing just that back in January.
Biden campaign: “What if we started by calling million of Americans “extremist” for disagreeing with us?” pic.twitter.com/Cbo91LTvZX
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) January 4, 2024
Political rhetoric often involves a lot of finger-pointing and accusations, but we currently live in a time where these accusations are taken very literally and violence often erupts. We live in an America where the left believes that its right to punch people for the mere suspicion of being a Nazi, and Biden just painted everyone who isn't on his side as one.
Am I trying to say that Biden is advocating for some sort of Civil War? No, not necessarily, though he has alluded to it in various ways. As I wrote previously, it's not a war he'd win.
(READ: The American People Just Demonstrated to Biden Why He'd Lose a Civil War)
What I do think he's doing, or rather his staff is doing, is attempting to gin up a reason for his radical base to get back out in the streets and begin ginning up marches and riots. I think they want to turn the heat up and give the media's cameras something to focus on. I think they want big speeches from the man on the street to the politician in office declaring that they won't allow this kind of evil to exist in America, get a national conversation started, and force people to pick a side.
But it's not going to work. In fact, I can only see this backfiring.
People are suffering in America and it's pretty clear that it's not Trump's fault. It's not the conservative's fault. It's the Democrat Party's fault. They mishandled the economy, opened the border, defunded the police, jacked up the prices of everything, and mishandled our taxpayer dollars by sending them every which way but to the places they needed to go.
Calling people who want to feed their families and live comfortably in a healthy economy and safe neighborhood "Nazis" is, frankly, a very stupid move and one that shows just how out of touch Biden, his administration, his campaign, and the Democrats generally are. Yeah, his radicals in black bloc might get the message and start assaulting and looting, but these will be relegated to streets where Democrats allow it to happen and it will only serve to be an example of how Democrats are failures.
If Biden's handlers were hoping this would ignite a movement, I'd advise them not to hold their breath. I'd advise them to start packing because they just effectively tried to pick a fight with the average American and that's historically not something that ever goes well for the antagonist.
