President Joe Biden, the man who ran as a unifying figure, can’t stop accusing his opponents of being Jim Crow racists. He continues to cling to an unhinged conspiracy theory about voting laws, despite the fact that he has no evidence people’s votes are being “suppressed.”
To cap off Black History Month, Biden once again accused Republicans of trying to prevent black people from voting. Biden said that the new voting bills being passed in Republican-run states were trying to prevent “the black vote, when it occurs, from even counting.”
Biden claims Republicans are trying to ban black votes “from even counting” pic.twitter.com/hTDb5YiyzJ
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) February 28, 2022
Biden is continuing to do this despite the fact that Georgia’s voting law, which inspired his delusional talking points, actually expanded voting opportunities in the state. Biden called that “Jim Crow on steroids” and pressured Major League Baseball to move its All-Star Weekend out of Georgia.
Biden wasn’t satisfied with that, as he has constantly claimed that “voting rights” are under attack. Biden, who was born in 1942, said Monday that he has never seen voting rights under attack as they are now. All this because Republican-run states think voters should have to show identification to vote, something that is supported by 69% of black voters.
But Biden, who said during the 2012 election that Republicans wanted to put black people ”back in chains,” can’t quit the fearmongering. Biden is currently hovering around 40% approval. He has decided he must try to whip Democratic voters into a panic over voting rights to bring out the Democratic base for the 2022 midterm elections. It’s a strategy that Democrats use often, and yet it regularly fails, because most voters recognize that it is fiction.
But that hasn’t stopped Biden’s unhinged rhetoric. Biden, the great unifier, can’t resist claiming his political opponents are racists. Perhaps it just strikes too close to home for him, given that he was friends with the pro-segregation Democrats he is now claiming aren’t as bad as today’s Republicans.
The demagogic rhetoric won’t save Biden’s presidency, the Democratic Party’s congressional majorities, or the doomed Democratic bills that seek to abolish voter ID nationwide. But Biden is continuing to foster divisions and paint half the country as terrible racists. He is as toxic a partisan as we have on the political scene, and he is likely to continue that toxicity over the next three years.
