Not only has President Joe Biden failed to fulfill his promise to unite a broken nation, his rhetoric is now actively contributing to our divide. The president must watch his tone. He’s starting to sound like the man he replaced.
In an angry, rambling rant in Georgia last week, Biden suggested those Americans who oppose the Democratic drive to strip states of their constitutional right to run their own elections are racists and segregationists.
His speech not only distorted the facts about Georgia’s voter integrity law, it compared it to Jim Crow-era policies, and likened its supporters to Confederates who want to tear down our democracy.
It was delivered in the same confrontational cadence as the president’s address commemorating the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
The Atlanta speech has been widely criticized for both its content and its tone. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said of his old friend and colleague, “I did not recognize the man at the podium,” adding that Biden’s remarks were incoherent.