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Biden Weaponizes Hate to Win Votes<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/span>

Historian Henry Adams observed a century ago that politics \u201chas always been the systematic organization of hatreds.\u201d President Biden confirmed this axiom in his raging speeches prior to the mid-term congressional elections.<\/section>\n

Throughout his career, Biden has relied on a two-step routine \u2014first appealing to \u201cour better angels\u201d before demagogically vilifying his opponents.<\/strong> In December 2020, after the Electoral College had certified his presidential victory, he declared, \u201cNow it is time to turn the page, to unite, to heal.\u201d In his inaugural address last year, Biden appealed to his audience: \u201cWe can join forces, stop the shouting, and lower the temperature.\u201d<\/p>\n

Except when turning up the temperature. After rowdy protestors briefly entered the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, Biden and his Democratic allies portrayed any Republican who did not unquestioningly endorse the 2020 election as a traitor. President-elect Joe Biden condemned the protestors as \u201cdomestic terrorists\u201d and said their action \u201cborders on sedition.\u201d (Actually, Republican members of Congress who objected to the Electoral College verdict were being denounced as the \u201csedition caucus\u201d even before January 6.) Pervasive allegations of treason are demands for a political death sentence (if not actual execution) for one\u2019s opponents. This became the template for the Biden administration\u2019s effort to preemptively demonize dissent. Biden piled on additional charges, such as his comparison of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.<\/p>\n

In May 2021, Biden proudly signed the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, creating new federal penalties for attacks against Asian Americans or other groups blamed for COVID. But Biden subsequently sought to maximize hatred toward anyone who did not obey his COVID edicts.<\/strong> In 2020, Biden pledged not to impose a compulsory mandate for COVID vaccines. When he betrayed that pledge in a September 2021 televised speech, Biden portrayed the unvaxxed as Public Enemy No. 1, warning that \u201cyour refusal has cost all of us.\u201d Biden sneered that vaccine skeptics only wanted \u201cthe freedom to kill you\u201d with their COVID.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In December 2021, Biden delivered ghastly Christmas greetings to Americans: \u201cWe are looking at a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated.\u201d But within a few weeks after that fearmongering, the efficacy of COVID vaccines collapsed and more than a million Americans a day were being hit with COVID infections \u2014 even though the large majority had followed Biden\u2019s admonition. Biden kept railing about a \u201cpandemic of the unvaccinated\u201d long after the efficacy of the Pfizer vaccine had fallen even lower than Biden\u2019s approval ratings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s hate speech campaign against the opposition<\/b><\/h2>\n

Biden\u2019s harsh rhetoric in the congressional campaign races last fall made a mockery of his preening as the Great Unifier. Hatred became simply another issue conscripted for a desperate Democratic \u201cget out the vote\u201d drive.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an August 26 campaign rally in Rockville, Maryland, Biden scoffed at Republicans before announcing: \u201cWe\u2019ve chosen a different path: forward, the future, unity, hope, and optimism.\u201d But Biden railed that \u201cthe MAGA Republicans don\u2019t just threaten our personal rights and economic security, they\u2019re a threat to our very democracy. They refuse to accept the will of the people. They embrace \u2014 embrace \u2014 political violence. They don\u2019t believe in democracy.\u201d Biden warned, \u201cIt\u2019s not hyperbole, the very survival of our planet is on the ballot.\u201d Anyone voting for Republicans became complicit with the destruction of Earth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A few hours earlier, at a private event for Democratic donors in ritzy Bethesda, Biden denounced Republicans for \u201csemi-fascism.\u201d Other Democrats quickly picked up that gauntlet. Democrat Max Frost, running for a Florida congressional seat, denounced Republicans such as Gov. Ron DeSantis for seeking to build \u201cright-wing fascist power.\u201d<\/p>\n

On September 1, Biden made history with the first prime-time presidential speech with a backdrop inspired by the movie \u201cV for Vendetta\u201d and Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. The harsh red atmospherics perfectly complemented Biden\u2019s attempt to portray ex-President Donald Trump and Republicans as the Antichrist waiting to crucify American democracy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Biden called for everyone to \u201cunite behind the single purpose of defending our democracy.\u201d In other words, everyone must support Joe Biden or democracy will be destroyed. Biden\u2019s endless calls for \u201cunity\u201d were a demand for submission to whatever he decrees. Law professor Jonathan Turley observed, \u201cPresident Biden has arguably the worst record of losses in [federal court] the first two years of any recent presidential administration.\u201d Biden \u201ccompensated\u201d for such losses by denouncing Republican-appointed judges whenever convenient.<\/p>\n

In that Philadelphia speech, Biden declared that \u201cTrump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.\u201d But he didn\u2019t confess to the audience that he considered almost half of all Americans to be \u201cextremists.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few hours before Biden\u2019s speech, White House press secretary Jean-Pierre asserted, \u201cWhen you are not with where majority of Americans are, then, you know, that is extreme. That is an extreme way of thinking.\u201d Was this wacko definition of extremism designed to vilify anyone who doubts Biden will save America\u2019s soul? (The speech was titled, \u201cThe Continued Battle for the Soul of the Nation.\u201d) But denouncing hatred is one of the best ways to spur hatred \u2014 especially if you identify the \u201chaters\u201d to include practically half the U.S. population.<\/p>\n

Four days later, speaking in Wisconsin, Biden declared, \u201cExtreme MAGA Republicans in Congress have chosen to go backwards \u2014 full of anger, violence, hate, and division\u2026. Extreme MAGA Republicans don\u2019t just threaten our personal rights and our economic security, they embrace political violence.\u201d Biden made it sound as if tolerating hardline Republicans would be the death of the nation. The only way to defeat hate is to worship Biden and cheer when he denounces all his opponents as \u201csemi-fascists.\u201d<\/p>\n

On September 15, Biden hosted a White House \u201cUnited We Stand\u201d summit. That summit verified that, for Team Biden, \u201chate\u201d is a flag of political convenience. In announcing the summit, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stretched back a decade to list a \u201cdisturbing series of hate-fueled attacks, from Oak Creek [Wisconsin Sikh temple, 2012] to Pittsburgh [synagogue, 2018], from El Paso [Walmart shootings, 2019] to Poway [California synagogue, 2019], from Atlanta [massage parlors, 2021] to Buffalo [grocery store, 2022].\u201d The common element in those attacks is that the killers are white \u2014 fitting the Biden administration theme that \u201cwhite supremacists\u201d are the biggest terror threat in America. Yet, while those killers deserve the harshest punishment, the Biden scorecard ignored 99.9% of the murders committed in America.<\/p>\n

Biden told the summit attendees: \u201cHate-fueled violence is born into the fertile soil of a toxic division. We won\u2019t solve the problem by going after the extreme fringes alone. We have to confront the ways in which our toxic divisions fuel this crisis for all of us \u2014 our differences.\u201d And then Biden suggested fighting hate by banning assault weapons \u2014 as if federal agents confiscating tens of millions of privately owned firearms would magically commit peace in our times, give or take a few dozen Waco-type slaughters. And just in case disarming peaceful Americans didn\u2019t create paradise, Biden also tub-thumped for a big boost in pay for AmeriCorps recruits.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s incitement to violence<\/b><\/h2>\n

While Biden was seeking to hold all Republican officials and voters collectively guilty for the rhetoric of any Republican candidate, Democrats also uncorked plenty of \u201cfull moon\u201d howlers. On a Sunday morning talk show, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) equated participants in the Jan. 6 Capitol ruckus with the 9\/11 terrorists. Vice President Kamala Harris also equated Jan. 6 with 9\/11 and threw in Pearl Harbor to score a trifecta. Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), then a Senate candidate, proclaimed: \u201cWe have to kill and confront that [\u201cextremist\u201d Republican] movement.\u201d \u201cKill all the extremists\u201d was the natural conclusion of Biden\u2019s demonology.<\/p>\n

Throughout his career, adulatory media coverage has enabled Biden to get away with his Jekyll and Hyde routines. Two weeks before the mid-term congressional election, the New York Times <\/i>weighed in with a comically slanted piece that implied that the rhetorical sins were almost all on one side of the ledger. The Times<\/i> blazoned its front page with a story about Republicans\u2019 use of \u201cdevil terms.\u201d Times<\/i> reporters sifted through millions of documents to prove that Republicans \u201cused divisive words and phrases more than twice as often as Democrats in tweets.\u201d The Times<\/i> quoted a Texas A&M professor who explained that devil words are \u201cthings that are so unquestionably bad that you can\u2019t have a debate about them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Times<\/i> piece is akin to a TV wrestling referee who ignores the wrench that his favored wrestler pulled from his trunks to whack his opponent on the hea<\/strong>d. The Times <\/i>condemned Texas Republican congressman Pat Fallon for saying that Biden \u201cneeds to take a cognitive test.\u201d When did questioning any president\u2019s mental acuity become illicit? Inflation has increased more than fivefold since Biden took office, but the term \u201cBidenflation\u201d was condemned as extremist rhetoric. The Times<\/i> even considered the phrase \u201cBiden border crisis\u201d as devil words.<\/p>\n

A few days before the congressional elections, Biden shuffled to Union Station in Washington, D.C., to do some last-minute fearmongering. Biden railed against \u201clies told for power and profit, lies of conspiracy and malice, lies repeated over and over to generate a cycle of anger, hate, vitriol and even violence.\u201d He assured the audience that they were in a \u201cstruggle for democracy, a struggle for decency and dignity, a struggle for prosperity and progress, a struggle for the very soul of America itself.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking on the edge of Capitol Hill, Biden portrayed himself as the savior of the republic. He declared, \u201cAutocracy is the opposite of democracy. It means the rule of one, one person, one interest, one ideology, one party.\u201d But Biden offers a \u201cTrust Me\u201d version of democracy in which the Supreme Leader is entitled to be revered, regardless of how many secrets he keeps from the American people. Biden warned, \u201cMake no mistake, democracy is on the ballot for all of us. We must remember that democracy is a covenant.\u201d And Biden is the Moses waiting to lead his people out of the chains of hatred.<\/strong><\/p>\n

No matter how much vitriol Biden uses on opponents, his pundit and press corps allies will soon be portraying him as Uncle Joe \u2014the kindly grandfather simply concerned about his wayward flock. No matter how many Orwellian \u201ctwo-minute hate\u201d routines that Biden performs, he will be Mr. Nice Guy within moments after he ceases vilifying opponents.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the media has focused far more on political rhetoric than on Biden\u2019s abuses of power. The greatest threat our democracy faces is not the words of political candidates but the dictatorial actions of elected politicians. Neither Biden nor his opponents have done anything to disprove the verdict of Thomas Paine: \u201cThe trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

This article was originally published in the February 2023 edition of<\/em> Future of Freedom<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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