pjmedia.com by Rick Moran
“We have met the enemy and he is us,” said Joe Biden in so many words on Thursday night. Cartoonist Walt Kelly modified Commodore Oliver Perry’s quote — “We have met the enemy and they are ours.” — in honor of the first Earth Day. But Biden and the Democrats can’t win in November unless they turn “us” into “them.” They have to create an enemy and divide Americans into “us” (the good guys) and “them” (the bad guys).
Anyone who saw Biden’s speech, who listened to its hysterical exaggerations and bitter denunciations of former president Donald Trump and his party, had to have been unnerved by it. It was a macabre nightmare, or as Matt Taibbi put it, Biden’s handlers, by “Trying to create a setting for judgment and warning, they overshot the staging and made the white-haired ex-Senator look like a vampire sat up from a crypt.”
This is why it matters when Biden describes “MAGA Republicans” as a “threat… to the very soul of this country,” or as “extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic,” representing “dangers around us we cannot allow to prevail.” It’s hard to see how these terms are substantively different from War on Terror constructions like the “continued and imminent threat to U.S. interests” or a “serious and continuing threat to the American people.” Biden sounded like a man preparing followers for an enforcement response to Trumpism itself, and even if that wasn’t what he was doing, it’s clear many Trump supporters heard things that way….
