After months of not-so-coyly dancing around the fact that he hates you and considers you a violent, existential threat to the country, President (?) Joe Biden finally just came out and said it this week.
Biden found a couple of Democratic politicians who weren't mortified to be seen with him on the campaign trail. The first was Sen. Chris Van Hollen in Maryland, who's up by about 275 points in the latest poll against his Republican opponent. The other was a guy who suffered a stroke a few months ago and can barely put a coherent thought together and articulate it without sounding like half his brain is missing.
(Side note: When you believe that Joe Biden can articulate your political positions better than you can, perhaps it's time to drop out of the race.)
During his appearance in Maryland, he tried out his new, unifying message:
“What we’re seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy,” Biden told a group of Democratic donors at a private home in Maryland ahead of the rally.
“It’s not just Trump,” he went on, “it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the – I’m going to say something: It’s like semi-fascism.”
The term "semi-fascist" is, of course, moronic. What did we expect from Hunter's pop? It's like being semi-pregnant. Throwing a "semi" in front of "fascist" doesn't change the fact that Biden thinks you're a Nazi.
A few days later, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre doubled down and left all ambiguity on the cutting room floor.
"The president thinks that there is an extremist threat to our democracy," Jean-Pierre said in a preview of Biden's planned speech for Thursday. "The MAGA Republicans are the most energized part of the Republican Party. That is an extreme threat to our democracy, to our freedom, to our rights."
She added further that "they just don't respect the rule of law" and are "pursuing an agenda that takes away people's rights."
If you're not really paying attention because you think this is typical "my opponent is the devil" kind of political rhetoric we always hear weeks before an election, you need to recognize this is something very, very different.
Biden and his flack are not talking about Trump. And they're not talking about DeSantis or McCarthy or Boebert or MTG or Gaetz. And they aren't talking about Bannon or Tucker or Bongino or Schlichter or me. They are not talking about elected officials or candidates or pundits.
The president of the United States and the tax-payer salaried employees of the White House are talking about you.
It's no surprise that President Unity thinks you're a fascist... it's just a little jarring to hear him use the bully pulpit of the highest office of the land to come right out and say it, especially just days after his Justice Department ordered the ever-powerful FBI to raid the home of his chief political opponent just months before an important election.
This escalation of outward hostility raises several very serious questions as to how President Return To Norms proposes to resolve the violent schism in the body politic he currently oversees.
Biden just labeled 74,000,000 of the people he currently has the honor and responsibility of leading nothing better than Nazis. It doesn't take a genius to figure out where this thought process naturally leads.
If your opponent is a Nazi, it makes it that much easier to criminalize their behavior and speech.
Biden's FBI director has already repeatedly proclaimed that "right-wing groups" are the single, greatest domestic terror threat our country faces.
Biden had his Justice Department use that same "Domestic Terrorist" label for angry parents who pushed for their children's rights at school board meetings last fall.
That same DOJ and FBI just engineered a Stasi-like raid on the private home of the man who will most likely lead the president's opposition party in the next general election.
And Biden and his party and their stooges in the media act like all of this is normal and justifiable.
How? How do they claim a never-before-attempted criminal investigation and document seizure of a former president and future political opponent is just "standard operating procedure" and completely justifiable? Because that man is a fascist, of course.
And you, you're just as targeted now as Trump. After all, the language of "the MAGA Republicans are the most energized part of the Republican Party" implicates anyone who voted for Trump who employed MAGA as his campaign slogan.
Biden may think this kind of garbage will win him support and maybe even votes, but he and his party have not thought through the obvious consequences of their scorched earth politicking. After all, when your opponents and their supporters are fascists, how, exactly, do you figure out a way to work with them and treat them as equal citizens after election day?
You don't.
Come to think of it... maybe they HAVE thought this through.