This has also been one of the most demonizing administrations in recent memory, which makes all the "unity" talk even more laughable.
It started with the excuse the Biden campaign had for their "basement strategy" while running for president in 2020, which was Covid-19. Biden pretended that we were not at war "with each other":
We need to remember: We’re at war with a virus — not with each other.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) November 25, 2020
As usual, the Biden White House said weren't at war with each other, but only if you agreed completely with the Biden White House. In September of 2021, about a year and a half after the start of the pandemic, Biden was still using "the unvaccinated" as a cudgel for more division. Remember this?
If we raise our vaccination rate, protect ourselves and others with masking and expanded testing, and identify people who are infected, we can and we will turn the tide on COVID-19.
It will take a lot of hard work, and it’s going to take some time. Many of us are frustrated with the nearly 80 million Americans who are still not vaccinated, even though the vaccine is safe, effective, and free.
You might be confused about what is true and what is false about COVID-19. So before I outline the new steps to fight COVID-19 that I’m going to be announcing tonight, let me give you some clear information about where we stand.
First, we have cons- — we have made considerable progress in battling COVID-19. When I became President, about 2 million Americans were fully vaccinated. Today, over 175 million Americans have that protection.[...]
While the vaccines provide strong protections for the vaccinated, we read about, we hear about, and we see the stories of hospitalized people, people on their death beds, among the unvaccinated over these past few weeks.
This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
That rhetoric also came from the "follow the science" crowd that encouraged not to invite the unvaccinated to holiday dinners. But "unity," or something.
While he was still running for president in 2019, Biden was doing the "hope over fear" and "unity over division" thing as a warm-up for the next few years:
Everybody knows who Donald Trump is, we have to let them know who we are. We choose hope over fear. Truth over lies. And unity over division. pic.twitter.com/X2eLN3xe7M
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 26, 2019
How'd that "unity over division" thing work out?
WATCH: President Joe Biden: "The only garbage I see floating out there is [Trump] supporters." pic.twitter.com/9teSUOytqC
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 30, 2024
If calling half the country (or even more than half judging from the election outcome) "garbage" is unity I'd hate to see Biden's idea of division.
And of course the "unity president" is the same one who had this infamous optic:
Biden's September of 2022 "battle for the soul of the nation" harangue was one of the most divisive addresses in U.S. history, and it wasn't the only time the president spoke like this about his opposition:
MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards — backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love.
They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.
Biden basically made Trump out to be Hitler, and then after Hitler had a decisive victory in the election earlier this month, Biden invited Hitler to the White House for a friendly meeting.
Mercifully, the Biden-Harris years will soon come to an end and the incoming administration can start to extinguish the dumpster fires that were started over the last four years.
Good riddance to Biden and Harris' version of "unity."
