Like Biden or hate him, you do have to at least respect him a little for engaging in personal sacrifice. Being the President of the United States is the goal for many younger politicians, and for him, it’s the peak of his career. To drop the campaign for a second term because he believes in something (right or wrong) more than he believes in his own ego shows that he’s serious about doing the right thing, whether we agree with him or not. Of course, he was under immense pressure from his own party and major donors to step aside, so that naturally had to have figured into his decision as well.
Regardless of his true motivations, in his first address since dropping out, he made it pretty clear that this was his decision and that he did it for others over himself:
While I know most of us appreciate selfless service, I know many readers vehemently disagree with other aspects of his speech and reasoning. Many of us don’t feel that Trump is a danger to the future of the Republic and limited government. If anything, many people here feel that it’s Trump who will save the Republic. If we can overlook that for a moment and look at the rest of the speech, it’s clear that Biden is trying to call for unity in defense of the Constitution.
As misguided as Biden is about some of the other issues he brought up, the goal was to reach wider and unite more people.
You’d think that after talking about unity and protecting the Republic, Biden might look to endorse a candidate who unifies more people in the face of the grave threat Biden thinks the country is facing. Getting reasonable people together to protect democracy and rule of law is too important to let anything get in the way. It’s time to set divisive policy aside and prevent the rise of dictatorship, right?
But, he endorsed Kamala Harris, and this is what Harris is saying:
KAMALA: “Let’s have an assault weapons ban… An assault weapon is a weapon of war with no place, no place in a civil society.”
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) May 29, 2022
Yes, I know this video is from 2022 in the wake of a shooting. But, in Harris’ first campaign speech after Biden dropped out, she called for the same divisive policy. In a speech delivered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she started out by saying she’d spend “the next few weeks” working to unite her party to win in November. Obviously, that’s a vague statement, as a “few” could be three or it could last all the way until November. But, the goal isn’t to unite America—it’s to unite her party.
So, clearly, she’s still in primary mode, trying to win her party she didn’t get elected by over before moving later to get votes. So, we shouldn’t be surprised that she’s still pushing progressive positions, like gun control. She goes through a laundry list of things she says are the future, compared to what she says are Republican policies of the past. When it comes to gun control, she not only says she’s aiming for background checks and red flag laws that deny people their rights without due process of law, but also wants to ban all “assault weapons.”
When we consider that tens of millions of Americans own semi-automatic rifles, this is clearly not a centrist agenda that unites people. It’s an extreme progressive position that would make criminals out of a double-digit percentage of the population.
While Joe Biden is trying to secure his legacy and says he wants to unite people before he is put out to pasture, Harris pushes for extreme positions that basically unravel what Joe says he wants. With the Democratic Party working against each other like this, their chances of winning in November aren’t great.
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