President Joe Biden is using the twilight months of his presidency to emerge into the light of day in order to accuse former President Donald Trump of being an unreconstructed racist.
Biden seems to be spending more time on his back with his mouth hanging open at a Delaware beach than he spends doing his job; the New York Times very kindly calls this seeking an “elusive low profile.” But the President managed to attend a White House reception September 18 for Hispanic Heritage Month.
Biden called the coming November elections the “single most consequential” in the lifetime of anyone in the room. Referring to conservatives as “the other team,” he said the right does not see the world “like we see it.” He called right-leaning voters “the most closed-minded people I’ve ever dealt with.”
While this kind of political rhetoric is to be expected when it is aimed at politicians, President Biden has surprised many with his willingness to attack the character of half the country’s voters; this has never been usual behavior for a president until the Biden administration. Many recall the speech he gave in 2021 where he told Americans that his patience was running out with citizens who refused to get the Covid vaccine. He took an even more combative tone the next year in what is coming to be called his “red speech” in front of a building awash in blood-red theater lights.
But it was Donald Trump who Biden took his most serious aim at during the Hispanic Heritage Month event this week. Though like usual Biden takes pains to avoid using Trump’s name, it was clear who he was criticizing. Biden said “we don’t demonize immigrants” (“we” meaning Democrats), and that his party does not believe immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the U.S. The country is a nation of immigrants, he said, which is “why we’re so damn strong.”
The Democrat party has launched a full-court press to paint Donald Trump as a dangerous dictator, calling him a tyrant in the making while lying about what Trump has and has not said. Many observers are starting to publicly question if Democrat politicians are doing it consciously in hopes that an assassin will kill President Trump. He was shot in the ear at a rally in Pennsylvania in July, and a second would-be assassin nearly fired on him Sunday, September 15, while Trump was golfing in Florida.
