Over the weekend, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi demonstrated that there is no limit to just how low she and her fellow Democrats can go in using the “race card” for political purposes. On Saturday, Pelosi told her constituents that Trump supporters had chosen “their whiteness over democracy.”
“That’s what this is all about.”
In the online video meeting with some constituents in her San Francisco congressional district, Pelosi continued to smear the opposing party as a bunch of racists. “I thought it was going to be an epiphany for those who were in opposition of our democracy to see the light. Instead, it was an epiphany for the world to see that there are people in our country, led by this president, for the moment, who have chosen their whiteness over democracy. That’s what this is all about.”
In other words, the only reason — or at least the principal reason — that anyone would support Donald Trump over Joe Biden is because the person is a racist.
This is not the first time that Pelosi has recklessly used race in her bid for political advantage. In her condemnation of the invasion of the Capitol last week, she not only blamed Trump, she interjected race into the equation. “When the assault was taking place on the Capitol, 3,865 people in our country died of the coronavirus, many of them people of color.” It reminds one of the old joke that if the world was about to destroyed, the headline in mainstream-media newspapers would be, “Women and minorities will be hardest hit.”
It is quite obvious that the charge of racism and white supremacy is a key tactic of the Democrats to smear the opposition. While Trump has been routinely accused of sympathy with white supremacists, without evidence, Biden was already using the tactic against Republicans in the 2012 presidential campaign. “They gonna put y’all back in chains,” Biden said in reference to Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for president.
Romney responded by saying that Obama’s “campaign and his surrogates have made wild and reckless accusations that disgrace the office of the presidency,” by “dividing us into groups,” and demonizing some and pandering to others.
Biden continued his shameless use of the tactic when Trump became president. Referencing the 2017 violence in Charlottesville, Biden falsely said that Trump called the neo-Nazis and white supremacists “very fine people.” Actually, Trump specifically condemned them, saying that he was not calling those two groups “fine people,” but saying, “they should be condemned totally.”
When a black radio-show host told Biden that he had some more questions before deciding whether to support Biden or Trump, Biden responded, “Well I tell you what, if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.” Blacks who support conservative causes are routinely smeared by the Left — with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas being a prime example, and Biden has no reluctance to smear average African Americans along with prominent ones such as Thomas.
Yet, while running for president, Biden said that Trump “has fanned the flames of white supremacy.”
In the end, however, it is not just Trump whom Biden and Pelosi, and many others in public office and in the mass media, are targeting. Hillary Clinton called Trump supporters “deplorables.”
Regarding Pelosi’s comment that Trump supporters chose their whiteness over “democracy,” it should be said that the United States was established as a republic, not a democracy.
While this effort to tar the political opposition with the charge of racism predated the Trump presidency, and intensified when he took office, Pelosi’s remark signals it will not end when Trump leaves office on January 20.
If anything, it might get worse, unless Republicans wake up to this fact and start fighting back. Don’t hold your breath, though.
