In what world does a President get up and condemn those who love America – who have fought and died for this Nation, believe earnestly that the Bill of Rights is real, who want only to work, raise their kids, respect police, end homicides, political violence, drug trafficking, inflation, and illegal immigration? Only in a world wildly out of touch with America, Biden’s world. His Philadelphia speech was a disgrace.
In what world do those who advocate for honor, honestly, government accountability, lower taxes, free speech, freedom to think, write, pray as they wish, to defend their homes, lives, and families, to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures – get twisted into a “threat to democracy?” Only in a world where words have no meaning, Biden’s world.
Put differently, how can a President– struggling to stay coherent, unable even to remember what he said – go before the Nation and demonize those who oppose his objectively anti-American ideas, like rewriting and erasing history, desecrating monuments, allowing political violence, and tearing down statues (what Bolsheviks in Soviet Russia and fascists in 1930s Italy and Germany both did)?
How can he describe as “extremists,” “semi-fascists” (whatever that means), and “a threat to democracy” those who peacefully resist federal take-over of local economies, property rights, school boards, their children’s education, America’s culture, hard work, individual responsibility, safe streets, protected borders, symbols like our flag and anthem, and redefining words in biology, history, and law?
Who in their right mind – let alone a president – would give a speech that flies in the face of more than half the nation’s sincerely held beliefs, uncontested history, case law around free speech, free exercise of religion, peaceful opposition to government, gun rights, civil rights, and idealistic heights?
Who would condemn those who just want federal laws fairly and consistently enforced, laws that protect Supreme Court Justices, protect citizenship and the border, protect against violent political riots, protect citizens against homicides, car jackings, drug trafficking, intimidation, and public corruption?
The world could not be more backward – another word twisted by Biden in a stunningly hate-filled speech. “Backward” is when a republic’s leaders forget the Founder’s views on freedom (and fears of government), views shared by Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George HW Bush, most who have ever led this nation.
“Backward” is where you slide – and fast – when a republic’s leaders pretend individual liberties do not matter, people’s will does not matter, words do not matter, truth does not matter, accountability in government and public corruption do not matter – or when a former president of the opposing party is targeted while crimes by former presidential candidates of the ruling party go unanswered, and the president’s family escapes fair administration of justice, lining their pockets with money from China.
Does that not sound more like Public Corruption 101, places like Marcos’ Philippines, Samper’s Colombia, Fujimori’s Peru, Castro’s Cuba, Maduro’s Venezuela, Putin’s Russia, Xi’s China – than this “land of the free and home of the brave,” this precious, once-in-all-humanity nation, America?
To be clear: Mr. Biden is as far off as “off” gets. “We the People,” are not words, we are the Nation. To borrow from Jimmy Stewart, in the epic It’s a Wonderful Life, Mr. Biden needs to remember, like the oppressive Mr. Potter, “this rabble you’re talking about… they do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community” – and in this gloriously free and proud nation.
They pay for your fancy planes and homes, paid your salary all your life, pay for your mic, and pay for your mistakes, Mr. President. They pay with their calloused hands, weary minds, troubled kids, endless work, with their families, and with their lives.
These people you condemn are the ones who defend this nation with their hearts, muscles, minds, and lives, defend our borders and streets. They are the ones whose money you are spending, freedoms you are offending, lives and rights you blithely undervalue.
They are the ones you left in Afghanistan, abandoned, and lied about, who must pay for your follies, things like vote-pandering loan forgiveness and other giveaways, inflation, high interest rates, unending overreach. They pay at the pump, pay with incalculable stress.
Bluntly, having worked in the Reagan and Bush 41 White Houses, you dishonored the People’s House, made puppets of US Marines, put on a scare show worthy of no one. That Philadelphia speech was an unmitigated disaster, a presidential blunder, a full-throated condemnation – inspired by some twisted idea that attacking patriotic, liberty-loving Americans would help you.
Wrong. Most Americans are more than disappointed. They are disgusted with the behavior of this White House, Justice Department, and Congressional leadership – dismayed, betrayed, upset, and now finding themselves condemned by a doddering demagogue. They DO want to “Make America Great Again” – as well they should. That was not the speech of a Commander-in-Chief, more like a Condemner-in-Chief. Historically, morally, and politically, that speech was disgrace.