A Tea Party group slammed President Joe Biden for his Thursday night primetime address, in which he labeled Republican supporters for former President Joe Biden “a threat,” and accused them of extremism.
“Tonight, President Biden continued his tirade of dishonest rhetoric against those he fears. He repeated his lies that ‘MAGA Republicans’ are dangerous, doubling down on his errant claims that they’re extremist,” the Tea Party Patriots said in a press release. “As a point of fact, the only person in this one-sided back and forth who is dangerous is Joe Biden himself. For centuries oppressive governments have used derogatory labels and incendiary language to target and debase their political opponents, inevitably leading to violence against them from the masses. What Biden is doing is no different.”
Biden pitched himself as a president who would unite Americans.
The Tea Party Patriots said that is now indisputably untrue.
“Democrats, clearly concerned about midterms, have pulled out their 2016 playbook. Biden’s persistent dehumanization of so-called ‘MAGA Republicans’ and conservative voters is meant to divide the country into truculent partisanship,” the group said. “Just like Democrats’ abhorrent behavior while President Trump was in office, Biden is telling the country that over 70 million Americans are their enemy. What more justification for oppression and vitriol do liberals need than the president himself pointing to conservatives and yelling, ‘that’s your enemy.'”
The group also warned that the escalating rhetoric could lead to violence.
“Those who choose to follow the path of dangerous and inflammatory rhetoric know where it leads, to condoned illegal and immoral violence,” it said. “Everyone taking part in this type of vitriol needs to be swiftly rejected by voters who have had enough and will make their voices heard.”
“No matter how much division Biden tries to sow, those who love this country, love the Constitution, and love our representative democracy will not take his bait,” the group said. “We will continue to stand for liberty, work to ensure we have honest and transparent elections, and will never feel shame for our love for America and our desire to make America great.”
The Biden administration began using the term “MAGA Republicans” to describe those who support Trump weeks ago.
Since then, it has escalated its rhetoric towards those Republicans, 74 million of whom voted for Trump in the 2020 election, labeling them as “extremists” and insinuating that they are a threat to the United States.
Earlier this week, Biden tacitly threatened to use the military against his political foes.
Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre echoed Biden’s sentiments.
“The president thinks that there is an extremist threat to our democracy,” she said during a Wednesday press briefing. “The president has been as clear as he can be on that particular piece, when we talk about a democracy, when we talk about our freedoms. The way that he sees it is that the MAGA Republicans are the most energized part of the Republican Party. This is an extreme threat to our democracy, to our freedom [and] to our rights.”
Watch Biden’s full remarks:
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