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November 1, 2024

Hate Is Not a Winning Message

The Biden-Harris political strategy

The newest utterance from President Joe Biden was nothing more than a personal attack again millions of Americans who simply disagree with his failed politics. In response to the controversy over a comedian's joke at the Trump New York City rally, Joe Biden called Trump supporters garbage. His full statement is as follows:  "And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage. Well, let me tell you something. I don't, I, I don't know the Puerto Rican that, that I know or a Puerto Rico, where I'm fr-- in my home state of Delaware, they're good decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter's, his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it's un-American." Biden went on to later clarify his remark saying he didn't mean to say it. Well this is not the first time for Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the democrat party. Sticking to issues is what is important not the demonization of those of whom you disagree. Its obvious that there is not defense to the failed economy, high inflation, open borders and an increase in crime. So when the facts are not on your side, attack the person. Unfortunately, attacking voters is not a winning strategy. Just ask Hillary Clinton about calling Trump supports "deplorables". 

Joe Biden's long history of making inappropriate comments and gaffs is rather well established. From saying, "you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." to "They're going to put you all back in chains" in 2012 when speaking before a black audience in the race against Romney. Labeling Trump and his supporters as a "threat to democracy" and demonizing "Maga Republicans" with assorted derogatory remarks. The term MAGA or make America Great Again" was a bipartisan slogan used both by Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. Kamala Harris recently called Trump "a fascist" during a CNN Town Hall. Biden and Harris have often repeated the debunked lie about Trump claiming he said, there are "very fine people" on both sides when referring to both racist protesters in Charlottesville, VA and opponents. Trump's full statement leaves no doubt is was talking about those who either oppose or support removing statutes which recognize Confederate soldiers.

The quote in its entirety,

Reporter, Aug. 15, 2017: You said there was hatred, there was violence on both sides …

Trump: Well, I do think there’s blame – yes, I think there’s blame on both sides. You look at, you look at both sides. I think there’s blame on both sides, and I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it either. And, and, and, and if you reported it accurately, you would say.

Reporter: The neo-Nazis started this thing. They showed up in Charlottesville. …

Trump: Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo — and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down, of to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name. …

It’s fine, you’re changing history, you’re changing culture, and you had people – and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally – but you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers and you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets and with the baseball bats – you had a lot of bad people in the other group too.

Reporter: I just didn’t understand what you were saying. You were saying the press has treated white nationalists unfairly? …

Trump: No, no. There were people in that rally, and I looked the night before. If you look, they were people protesting very quietly, the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee. I’m sure in that group there were some bad ones. The following day, it looked like they had some rough, bad people, neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call them. But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest and very legally protest, because you know, I don’t know if you know, they had a permit. The other group didn’t have a permit. So I only tell you this: There are two sides to a story.

So besides being called a racist, the left has upped the ante to calling Trump Hitler. This line of attack is based on the assertion of one man, John Kelly, Donald Trump's former Chief of Staff who was fired. Kelly during an interview with the Atlantic less than two weeks before the election, claimed Trump said on more than one occasion, "You know, Hitler did some good things, too" and wanted generals like Hitler's generals. Without no other verification that Trump actually said these remarks, the story went viral with the left who was already referring to Trump as Hitler, a dictator and a strong man. Then Democrat VP candidate Waltz jumped in saying, Donald Trump's got this big rally going on at Madison Square Garden. There is a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the 1930's at Madison Square Garden". This reference was to a rally held by Nazis at Madison Square Garden in 1939. He then continued Kamala's line of attack about Trump's sanity,  "Trump is descending into madness..." When your opponent cannot defend their record or justify their policy agenda, they go for personal attacks. Their playbook now includes the demonization of their political opponents. In the end, people vote based on their pocketbook, safety and their quality of life. That is called reality. The verdict will come in four days.