Did Biden's anti-Maga speech work?
The words and music didn't go together all that well
Joe Biden’s public attack on 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump was pure vitriol. Cloaked in the guise of “defending democracy” and “upholding the rule of law” and “American institutions” Biden spent half an hour ranting about the January 6 protest and the alleged “threats of violence” against voting officials and FBI agents which he attributed to MAGA Replublicans.
So let’s review the bidding, starting with “upholding the rule of law”.
Democrat Maxine Waters speech as Derek Chauvin faced murder charges was an explicit call to violence: “We got to stay on the street. And we've got to get more active, we've got to get more confrontational. We've got to make sure that they know that we mean business.” if the jury did not deliver a guilty verdict. Sounds a lot like inciting violence and even more like jury tampering.
Democrat Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez didn’t mince words about the Minneapolis violent protests: “If you are calling for an end to this unrest, and if you are a calling for an end to all of this, but you are not calling for the end of the conditions that created the unrest, you are a hypocrite.”
Democrat Ilhan Omar said the violent BLM protests following the George Floyd incident were “valid”.
Biden Himself. Biden’s Administration refused to condemn the attempt to murder Justice Kavanaugh or the protests outside his residence following Roe v Wade decision.
The speech said nothing about recent revelations that it was left-leaning FBI agents who concocted the “Russian disinformation” hoax to suppress the publication of the Hunter Biden laptop contents, since found credible. Maybe it is the FBI threatening Trump and not MAGA Republicans threatening the FBI?
Biden’s speech tonight emphasized the importance of defending the Constitution and protecting America’s institutions. The Supreme Court is one of those institutions and its decision in Roe was one made to uphold the Constution. I guess for Joe Biden the institutions worth preserving are those that agree with his views and the ones that should be torn down are those that disagree with him.
You can tell Biden fears Trump’s power. His speech said nothing about burgeoning federal debt, rampant inflation, or the damage his climate policies are doing to the global energy balance which is now in severe shortage that will imperil the livelihoods of millions in Europe and United Kingdom. He said nothing about the threat to America from the open border he has permitted and the hundreds of thousands of deaths that have resulted from fentanyl coming through the porous border and into American cities, or the national security threat from known terrorists entering the United States through the Southern border. Instead, he touted the most recent legislation throwing gasoline on the inflation fires by spending billions more on pet Democrat projects and his pretense that his policies can reverse nature and “combat climate change” which has the same chance of success as the child sacrifices made by Incas and Aztecs to try and change the weather.
It was somewhere between a passionate speech and a desperate one. Biden can see power slipping out of the Democrats hands in a short 8 weeks and his attempt to rally Democrats to “save democracy” is his Hail Mary pass.
Will it work? It is too early to tell, but it likely struck a chord with committed Democrats. It triggered a predictable response from some Republicans who concluded that rather than trying to unify Americans to curb inflation and deal with serious isses “Biden has chosen to divide, demean, and disparage his fellow Americans -– simply because they disagree with his policies”. Having listened to Biden’s speech, I think they may have a point.