Former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard shredded President Joe Biden Wednesday for comments he made Tuesday that critics have labeled as divisive and beneath his office.
“I will defend the right to vote, our democracy against all enemies — foreign and, yes, domestic,” Biden said while speaking at the Atlanta University Center Consortium.
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“At consequential moments in history, they present a choice: Do you want to be the on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? Do you want to be on the side of John Lewis or Bull Connor? Do you want to be on the side of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?” he added. “This is the moment to decide to defend our elections, to defend our democracy.”
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Biden’s comments were an attempt to promote his administration’s effort to protect voting rights and hellbent ambition to remove the Senate’s “racist” and “Jim Crow” filibuster.
Gabbard took to Twitter to call out the president.
“Hillary’s calling tens of millions of Americans deplorables was divisive & disgusting,” the former Hawaii congresswoman said in a tweet. “But Biden has gone further, calling those who disagree with his actions & policies domestic enemies, traitors, and racists. Biden promised to unite us, but he is doing all he can do [to] divide us.”
The “deplorables” comment was in reference to a speech by Hillary Clinton, a two-time failed presidential candidate, during the 2016 campaign.
“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” Clinton said. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.”
Biden’s invocation of the Civil War and apparent comparison between conservatives and the likes of Jefferson Davis and George Wallace was also condemned by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican.
“Twelve months ago, this president said we should ‘see each other not as adversaries, but as neighbors.’ Yesterday, he called millions of Americans his ‘domestic enemies,'” McConnell said Wednesday on the floor of the Senate.
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“Twelve months ago, this president said that ‘disagreement must not lead to disunion.’ But yesterday, he invoked the bloody disunion of the Civil War, the Civil War, to demonize Americans who disagree with him. He compared a bipartisan majority of senators to literal traitors,” McConnell continued. “How profoundly, profoundly unpresidential.”
