Republicans Call Biden Divisive While Equating Him To Satan and Hitler

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Republicans Call Biden Divisive While Equating Him To Satan and Hitler

The party that routinely casts Democrats as demonic fascists hell-bent on destroying America is suddenly worried about political unity

GOP politician Nikki Haley John Lamparski/Getty Images

A red light? ? A podium? Two uniformed U.S. Marines? Looks like the summoning of Satan if you ask the GOP.  

President Joe Biden delivered one of his presidency’s strongest condemnations of Donald Trump and the MAGA movement in a prime-time speech on the steps of Independence Hall in Philadelphia. The stage was lit in alternating bands of blue and red, but a close up shot of Biden framed him entirely within the red portion of the lighting. The image evoked the unholy for many Republicans — despite red being the party’s official color.

“He looked like he was in the depths of hell,” former Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley told Fox News on Friday. 

 

Former assistant treasury secretary Monica Crowely struck a similar chord Thursday night. “The imagery there was almost satanic, with that blood-red lighting and the two Marines behind him,” she said on Fox News. “It was just insane.”

 

In his speech, Biden, who spent the week campaigning on behalf of Democratic candidates in Pennsylvania, said “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic … The Republican party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump.”

During a speech in Maryland last week, Biden called Trump and his most loyal supporters in government “semi-fascist,” a statement that drew intense ire from conservative pundits despite their own storied (and recorded) history of lobbing accusations of fascism at their opponents. 

Fox and the Republicans are losing their minds over Joe Biden calling MAGA "semi-fascist."

But they'd never call their political opponents "fascists," right? Right??

You'll be shocked, shocked I tell you! Roll the tape:pic.twitter.com/lIEiRdjqT7

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) September 2, 2022

If Biden’s stagecraft and message wasn’t evoking Satan, it was evoking Adolf Hitler. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a video where Biden’s features were edited to resemble the Nazi dictator. 

What we all saw tonight from Biden.

I guess when President Butterbeans is frail, weak, and dementia ridden, the Hitler imagery was their attempt to make him look “tough” while he declares war on half of America as enemies of the state.

Or it’s real..

pic.twitter.com/rk9vrt7ZK5

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) September 2, 2022

Fox News host Tucker Calrson described the setting as a “blood-red Nazi background.”

 

Others took the opportunity to compare Biden to a Sith lord. 

 

Former first son Donald Trump Jr. implored his followers to consider what would happen if his father had ever maligned an entire group of voters in such a manner and, of course, Twitter always remembers. 

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Semi? Got that part wrong.

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I see Trump called Biden an “Enemy of the State “ in response to his comments about MAGA.

He is correct.

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for you righties..................

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The GOP reaction to Biden’s speech shows that his anti-MAGA strategy is working

By Max Boot

 

For the past two years, ever since he became the Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden has been pushing a message of bipartisanship that grated on the ears of younger and more progressive Democrats. You could hear the grumbling: He’s too old, he has been in Washington too long, he doesn’t understand how the Republican Party has changed.

But Biden stubbornly insisted that he could pass bipartisan bills — and he did. He passed legislation to stimulate the economy, build infrastructure, fund semiconductor production, pay for veterans’ health programs, regulate gun sales, lower prescription drug prices and roll back greenhouse gas emissions. He hasn’t gotten everything he wanted, but from a legislative standpoint, this is one of the most successful presidencies in decades.

Now that Biden has gotten so much of his agenda enacted, and with the midterm elections looming, he has switched to a more combative mode. His Thursday speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia was billed as a salvo in the continuing battle for “the soul of the nation,” but it was really a well-justified expression of rage and despair about what the Republican Party has become. The president is finally telling Democrats what they want to hear: “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” This comes only a few days after he described the MAGA philosophy as “semi-fascism.”

As if on cue, Republicans screamed bloody murder, with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) accusing Biden of choosing “to divide, demean and disparage his fellow Americans.” So does this mean that Biden’s previous commitment to working with Republicans was merely transactional and has now been discarded in the heat of the campaign?

That is certainly the right-wing interpretation of his speech, with conservatives accusing Biden of discarding his campaign pledge to “unite our country” and not stoke “division.” (Republicans demonstrated their own commitment to unity and uplift after the speech by comparing Biden to Hitler and accusing him of being a “raving lunatic.”)

But note that Biden wasn’t calling out all Republicans — he was not, contrary to the GOP talking points, attacking “half the country.” He was careful to differentiate between normal Republicans and MAGA Republicans. “Not every Republican, not even the majority of Republicans, are MAGA Republicans,” he said. “Not every Republican embraces their extreme ideology.”

What Biden is doing is smart, if difficult to pull off: He is attempting to draw a dividing line between those Republicans who threaten U.S. democracy and those who don’t.

The problem, as he acknowledged, is that the MAGA Republicans aren’t some fringe movement: “The Republican Party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.” As Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) showed by losing her primary by nearly 40 points, there is no room for Trump critics in the Republican Party outside of a few blue enclaves such as Maryland and Massachusetts.

A recent Economist-YouGov poll showed that 69 percent of Republicans don’t think that Biden legitimately won the 2020 election, thus failing a basic litmus test of democracy. By some other measures, the number of MAGA Republicans is smaller — an NBC News poll found that only 41 percent of Republicans support Trump more than the party. Other polls show that only about 25 percent of Republicans approve of the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol.

Whatever figure you use for MAGA Republicans, it’s clear that they account for tens of millions of voters and pose a major threat to our democracy. But there are also millions of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who aren’t hardcore Trumpkins and who are up for grabs. This includes “Never Trump” former Republicans like me. In elections that are likely to be decided at the margins, in a handful of swing states or competitive districts, relatively small shifts in sentiment can produce a political earthquake.

In 2020, Biden got 6 percent of Republican votes compared with Hillary Clinton’s 4 percent in 2016 and, more importantly, 52 percent of independents compared with Clinton’s 42 percent. That was enough to oust Trump from the White House, with Biden flipping five Trump states by a combined margin of only 279,000 votes.

By focusing on “MAGA Republicans,” Biden is trying once again to persuade independents and the small number of moderate Republicans to support Democratic candidates. His strategy could backfire by simply firing up enthusiasm among Trump supporters (as was the case with Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment), but there is evidence to suggest it might be working.

While Biden has started attacking “MAGA Republicans,” Democrats’ election prospects have improved, boosted by gains among independents. A lot of that shift is because of support for abortion rights, a decline in gas prices and Democratic success in passing legislation, but a recent NBC News poll found that voters rank threats to democracy as their No. 1 concern. The GOP reaction to Biden’s speech has been so hysterical, one suspects, precisely because Republicans fear that his strategy — of turning “MAGA” into a toxic brand — might succeed.

 

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1 hour ago, PUB78 said:

I see Trump called Biden an “Enemy of the State “ in response to his comments about MAGA.

He is correct.

Yeah, only an "enemy of the state" would refuse to accept the outcome of a legal election, organize an seditious effort to illegally prohibit the certification of that election and then steal dozens of classified documents - for his own purposes - from the government and take them home.........

Oh, wait.....

Edited September 6, 2022 by homersapien

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The same people who loved how confrontational and aggressive Trump was and "Told it like it is" in all his rants, insults, and constant threats, are now very concerned that Biden is being divisive.

It's so silly. 

Edited September 6, 2022 by CoffeeTiger

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1 hour ago, PUB78 said:

I see Trump called Biden an “Enemy of the State “ in response to his comments about MAGA.

He is correct.

What state is that? Gilead?

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1 hour ago, CoffeeTiger said:

The same people who loved how confrontational and aggressive Trump was and "Told it like it is" in all his rants, insults, and constant threats, are now very concerned that Biden is being divisive.

It's so silly. 

Yeah, except Trump insulted celebrities and the press.  He did not insult 75M voters.  You have to understand the difference!

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9 minutes ago, auburn41 said:

Yeah, except Trump insulted celebrities and the press.  He did not insult 75M voters.  You have to understand the difference!

he is the only president i know to insult a medal of honor winner and his family.he was the only president that dissed a pow saying winners did not get caught or something crazy like that. lets be honest here for a change ok? good grief.

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2 hours ago, Leftfield said:

What state is that? Gilead?

How about Israel?