It’s being called the Red Speech, the Bloody Speech, and even Bloody Thursday. The White House calls it “Remarks…On the Continued Battle for the Soul of the Nation”. Time will tell what label it ultimately carries down in history, but one thing is certain. Thursday, September 1, 2022, was THE speech that will define Joe Biden’s presidency.
The iconic picture has been seared into the national consciousness: Joe Biden, arms outstretched behind the Presidential podium, Independence Hall bathed in blood-red with white wings above and uniformed troops below. If you’re a fan of WWII documentaries on the History Channel, it was all too familiar in a nightmarish, I-can’t-believe-they-did-that kind of way.
The staging was calculated to convey a message of strength and authority in support of a President with dismal ratings, an abysmal performance in office, and lingering (and steadily growing) concerns about the legitimacy of his election. What it did was invoke images of Nuremberg rallies, and the very Nazis Biden and his cronies accuse MAGA Republicans of being.
The rhetoric started with the usual platitudes. Biden invoked the Declaration and the Constitution. He spoke about ‘We, the People.’ And then, he called his main political rival and all those who support him “an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” What’s more, Biden didn’t stop there. “But there is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country,” he said.
The huge grinding sound just then was millions of brains stripping their mental gears. Threat to the country? Did he just say that we’re threats to democracy? Enemies of the State? No, he couldn’t; he wouldn’t…yeah, he did.
As the shock set in, the rest of what Biden said just slid by. It was the most un-Presidential thing many of us can ever remember, even during the most vicious of elections. This wasn’t merely campaign rhetoric–it came across to many, on both sides of the aisle, as tantamount to a declaration of war against Biden’s opponents.
President of all the people, Joe? Seriously? When you’ve just called 70+ million of Americans “threats to democracy”?
The rest of the Red Speech was pretty standard Democrat pre-election fare: Big Lies about the election, economy, what evil things the Right does (basically, a laundry list of the Left’s playbook, projected on those across the aisle), and how awesome a future fueled by trans-empowered unicorn flatulence and pixie dust is going to be. As an exercise in primitive, infantile defense mechanisms thinly disguised as political rhetoric, the transcript is worth reading. Otherwise, now that the shock has worn off, it’s hardly worth the time.
What will make the Red Speech remembered is just how far over the line it went, and how it perfectly laid out the mindset of the Democratic Party and its radical Leftist controllers in the 2022 election cycle.
Old Joe said the country was at an “inflection point”. The Red Speech made sure of it.
Biden’s handlers obviously realized they’d gone too far when the very next day, Biden repudiated his own statements about MAGA Republicans being “threats”. Of course, there are still the comments about MAGA Patriots being semi-fascists, and needing f-15s, and all the rest, but hey! Joe backtracked himself, so it’s okay, right?
Sorry, no. What’s said is said.
The country has been polarized for years, and it’s only been increasing since Biden took office. A YouGov.com poll done August 20-23 and released less than a week before the Red Speech showed that 66% of Americans thought political divisions had gotten worse since 2021, and 60% anticipate an increase in political violence in the next few years. Worryingly, 14% of Americans think a civil war is “very likely in the next decade”, and 43% say it’s “at least somewhat likely.” If you’re a “strong Republican”–one of those who Biden calls a “threat to this country”, those numbers are 22% and 33%, respectively. A poll by the Southern Poverty Law Center earlier this year found much the same.
After the Red Speech? Five days later, the Trafalgar Group released a reaction poll, and 56.8% of all respondents asked about the Red Speech agreed that “It represents a dangerous escalation in rhetoric and is designed to incite conflict among Americans.” This wasn’t just a bunch of extreme Ultra MAGA semi-fascists. 18.7% of Democrats and 62.4% of Independents agreed with 89.1% of Republicans on this issue. YouGov’s trackers show that 52% of respondents think the economy is “getting worse,” and 63% think the country is going in the “wrong direction” isn’t helping, either.
History’s verdict will be a long time coming, but right now, the Red Speech is shaping up to be the biggest Presidential event screw-up since Richard Nixon tried to cover up his 5 o’clock shadow with pancake makeup before his first debate with JFK. It was Barack Obama’s “bitter clingers” and Hillary Clinton’s “basket of Deplorables” on steroids, staged by Leni Riefenstahl and delivered by the Hair Sniffer in Chief.
The Red Speech portends what we can expect if MAGA candidates lose in 2022. The Left believes it successfully won (or “reinforced”, without any real consequences) the election of 2020. With their Hopium Dreams of a Happy No-Carbon Climate, Diverse, Inclusive, Equitable Utopia so close at hand, they have no incentive NOT to do the same thing in this cycle, and again in 2024. The only thing standing in their way are those evil extremist semi-fascist Ultra MAGA Republicans and the Orange Man Bad who leads them.
And so, the Red Speech was given, the gauntlet thrown, and the stakes made plain.
If the denizens of the Left are allowed to continue unchecked, the full force of the Regime will be unleashed on the MAGA Movement. Lois Lerner’s IRS persecution of Tea Party members will be a fond memory compared to what Biden’s 87K “lethal force” IRS agents will do to every MAGA supporter they can find. And, using the same cell phone tracking technology used in 2000 Mules, they can find quite a lot. Did you carry that smartphone to a Trump rally? Tag–you’re it!
If Steven Bannon and Majorie Taylor Greene can be SWATed multiple times, what about ordinary Americans?
Politics has opponents, with which you can negotiate and compromise. Enemies and threats are spoken of in times of war, and they must be attacked and destroyed. There were no words of compromise, no open hands or olive branches extended in the Red Speech to the MAGA Republicans who are “committed…to destroying American democracy.”
Since no one with a lick of sense actually wants a bloody revolution, how can it be avoided? Assuming, of course, that surrendering the country to Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, AOC, et. al., and whoever’s hand is inside the Joe Biden sockpuppet isn’t on the table.
MAGA Patriots have to get to work, right now. Democrats are out-fundraising and out-spending MAGA candidates nationally, and those dollars do matter. If you can’t give, then give sweat equity–find MAGA candidates, at every level, and volunteer with their campaigns. They’ll find something you can do–trust me on this.
Sign up to be poll watchers, because only by doing what Virginians did in 2021 can we be reasonably sure of accurate, legal voting and counting. Virginia Republicans literally put eyes on every box, every tabulator, and every official, and that is what MAGA must do this November, and again in 2024.
Finally, regardless of just what happens on November 8, MAGA Patriots have to start holding every elected official accountable. Politics is corrosive, seductive, and corrupt, and even the best can succumb to its allure. MAGA Patriots have to support those leaders who champion MAGA values against those who attack them, both from outside and inside the GOP. If they sink into the Swamp, be it the state capital or DC, they have to be pulled out and sent packing.
The MAGA Movement is a threat to the “democracy” that Joe Biden’s handlers want because the MAGA Movement seeks to restore, then preserve, the Constitutional Republic the Founders intended. Old Joe didn’t write the Red Speech, he just read the words on the teleprompter. That message, delivered with those visuals, wasn’t about the Founder’s Republic–it was about an authoritarian state that dictates every facet of your life, including what you are allowed to think and say…or else.
That’s not democracy. That’s not what this country is supposed to represent, and it’s not the country that MAGA Americans want to live in.
As Mr. Franklin said, they gave us a Republic, IF we can keep it. The Red Speech was ultimately about whether we can keep that Republic, or not.
This editorial was submitted by Dr. Bill Chitwood. Dr. Chitwood is retired from the practice of General and Child/Adolescent Psychiatry, where he held multiple clinical/Directorship/Administrative/leadership positions. He now does media/advertising and political consulting.
