Donald Trump's rhetoric is often coarse, insulting, and indefensible. His opponents have seized on it as perhaps the main reason, along with abortion rights, voters should elect Democrats in 2024. Yet, when it comes to insults and disgusting rhetoric the Democrats play a pretty good game themselves.
Barack Obama demeaned conservatives by referring to them as "bitter clingers," clinging to their guns and Bibles. Hillary Clinton displayed her contempt for many Trump supporters by calling them "deplorables" and declaring them "irredeemable." Now President Biden has said what a lot of Democrats evidently believe by labeling Trump supporters "garbage."
“Donald Trump has no character," quoth the president. "He doesn't give a damn about the Latino community…just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage?…The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.”
You can watch the man who once promised to bring us all together deliver himself of this assessment here:
The Democrats, including both Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, have been calling Trump and anyone who thinks he'd make a better president than Harris "fascists" and "Nazis" for a couple of weeks now, and President Biden's outburst fits right in with this view of their political opponents.
Their rhetoric is incendiary, hateful, and irresponsible. If one's opponents are Nazis and garbage then it's a logical next step to think that one is justified in using violence against them to prevent them from achieving political power.
It's certainly rational, given the pervasive moral relativism of our age, to believe that one is justified in engaging in electoral hanky-panky to keep the garbage out of the White House.
As the campaign winds to a close we can only hope and pray that the whackos out there choose not to take the Democrats' logic to either of those next steps.
