Democracy in America is possible only for those who do not support Donald Trump.
All those who support are her enemies.
And even enemies of the people.
Two months before the midterms, Joe Biden continues to raise the stakes, pushing the temperature in American politics closer to the melting point.
The genre of address to the nation, which American presidents use on the occasion of unprecedented troubles, and more often wars (the September 11 attacks, the invasion of Iraq or Afghanistan), suggests that the nation is united.
But Biden is the opposite.
The threat of Donald Trump is so great that the 70 million Americans who voted for him can not only be bracketed, but preferably also multiplied by zero.
For the keynote speech on "the ongoing battle for the soul of the country," the president chose a sacred place for America.
Philadelphia is the first capital of the United States, and the Independence National Historical Park is the cradle of its democracy.
Performance time is prime time.
The place is Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution were adopted.
The image of a brutal Biden going on a crusade against Trump and Trumpism was not supported by two marines who stood at attention for 25 minutes.
The emphatically aggressive entourage did not imply compromises, and Biden, clearing his throat, immediately went on the attack.
He named America's internal enemies openly.
“Donald Trump and the Republicans of MAGA [Make America Great Again] represented extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” Biden said to thunderous applause from supporters.
Moreover, with Biden, it turned out that the “good” Republicans seemed to be like a spherical horse in a vacuum.
Somewhere they exist, but in reality their cat cried.
Solid tramps.
“MAGA Republicans don't respect the Constitution.
They did not believe in the rule of law.
They did not recognize the will of the people,” Biden said, adding that “they refused to recognize the results of a free election.”
These “results of free elections”, of course, are especially impressive.
In terms of how they were obtained.
Half an hour before Biden's speech, a report about an egregious incident that occurred in Michigan appeared on the CNN program grid.
A vigilant security expert came across an ad on eBay for a voting machine used in that state in 2020.
The device was put up for sale by one Ean Hutchison, a 35-year-old Uber driver who is tech-savvy and has been making money on eBay for a long time.
He then told reporters that he bought the car online from Goodwill, a Michigan electronics store, for $7.99 and then sold it on eBay for $1,200.
In the end, it turned out that the “ASID-15V-Z37-B1R touchpad” (as it was listed in the ad) is one of the machines from Dominion Voting Systems, the system whose operators Trump was accused of electronically rigging the voting results in favor of Biden on those same election in Michigan.
Even more surprising is the reaction of local authorities.
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said that, first, voters need to be confident that elections in the state are safe, and second, that while the appearance of a Michigan voting machine on eBay raises concerns about how the machines are stored, the real the threat lies in what electoral conspiracy theorists might do.
That is, not the one who violated the law is to blame, but the one who worries about it and opens his mouth.
Leading up to the speech, the White House swore that it would not be a political speech.
But the triple “vote, vote, vote” near the end left no doubt.
The swinging Pennsylvania, where Biden, by the way, is speaking for the second time in a week, is extremely important in this sense.
The mood there is different.
So during the broadcast, from somewhere out of the frame, sirens and someone's screams into a megaphone in the background were heard every now and then.
The same people who, in his words, “destroy America” also came to listen to Biden.
They were not allowed inside, but the loud “To hell with Joe Biden!” was no doubt heard by millions of Americans.
“I will not stand by and watch the will of the American people be overturned by wild conspiracy theories and baseless evidence regarding allegations of fraud.
I will not stand by and watch the elections in this country being stolen by people who simply refuse to admit that they have lost,” the US President said.
Is it a panic or a tricky electoral move?
Both.
The raid on the Trump residence in Mar-a-Lago, from which one carries a custom-made mask show a mile away, caused a wave of questions not only among the Trumpists, but also among some Democrats.
Even left-wing Democrats like Biden's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have long been disappointed.
But without votes from the left, the Democrats, who are likely to lose the House of Representatives anyway, will have a very difficult time.
To ignite their hearts with a new wave of hatred for Trump and the Trumpists is one of Biden's pre-election tasks.
That's what the light show in Philadelphia was for.
The problem is that in ordinary life, both left and right Americans, in fact, are worried about the same things.
Both Democrats and Republicans walk the streets of cities experiencing an increase in crime.
They overpay for food, for gasoline and suffer from inflation.
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy called Biden the main divider of the United States, who epitomizes the current state of the Democratic Party: split, disgust and hostility towards half of the country.
And the neglect of her problems, from which they are so cynically trying to distract.
"Winter Is Coming.
Families barely make ends meet,” he said.
“The cost of electricity and energy carriers is an expense for family budgets.”
“Do you know that more than 20 million American households (that’s about one in six families) are behind on utility bills?” McCarthy said.
In a sense, Biden himself also has to pay the bills.
He has accumulated too much debt.
Biden has repeatedly presented himself as a politician who can unite "the divided American states."
He spoke about this during his inaugural speech.
As you know, it was preceded by the events of January 6, 2021 - the storming of the Capitol.
But something went wrong.
A year and a half later, a Quinnipiac University poll shows full agreement between Democrats and Republicans on just one point.
67% of them believe that democracy in the US is in danger.
So Biden's rule seems to have really brought Americans together.
In their fear of losing themselves and their country.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.