Biden not uniting America

Richard Miniter:

America is spiraling out of control.

From the unprecedented raid on Mar-a-Lago, to the seizure of a congressman's phone, to our doddering commander-in-chief, who increasingly seems like a man who doesn't have the sense or stamina to serve out his term.

And now, America is on the edge of another political nightmare.

We are less than 100 days away from the election of a new Congress to run the country – while the de facto leader of the Republican base delights in stoking his supporters' darkest suspicions under the shadow of a sincerely suspect investigation.

It feels like the country is battling under crashing waves, struggling for a breath, but the rollers keep coming.

Meanwhile, Biden has left town – yet again – for a beach vacation with his son – who has a federal probe looming over his head.

It is true that four years of the Trump presidency, with its independent prosecutors, riots, mobs pulling down statues, the two failed impeachments, and Covid lockdowns - were also disturbingly shambolic.

But that was supposed to be over when America ejected the Orange Man from the White House. It's not over and it's getting worse.

A group of beard-pulling historians gathered at the White House in early August to warn the president that democracy in America is on the brink of collapse.

Predictably, they pointed to the 'anti-democratic forces in the country' behind the January 6th riot. They could have pointed to many other groups with dark agendas on both sides, but they didn't.

The Biden White House has been doing this for the past two years – dividing the country between good and evil.

For them, it always been someone's else fault – and that someone is conveniently their political enemies, Donald Trump and his legions of deplorables.

That's how the new administration justifies raiding a former president's home to recover documents, as they did at Mar-a-Lago or seizing a sitting congressman's phone in an airport in front of his family, as happened to Pennsylvania Congressman Scott Perry.

Seen from the White House, America is teetering on the edge of insurrection. And insurrection is a fancy name for civil war. And war means police-state tactics are justified.

In both instances more gentle, less obtrusive, and offensive measures – like a subpoena or negotiations – would have sufficed. But in their minds – they're not dealing with fellow Americans – they're dealing with insurrectionists.

The rules don't apply.

Ransack their homes – humiliate them.

The people who lectured America about 'democratic norms' don't follow them themselves.

Now Biden and the people running the Justice department have set off a cycle of accusations and retaliations that will reverberate for years – even in the lives of ordinary people.

They are fanning the flames, not putting out the fire.

Every element of these latest DOJ investigations looks partisan and petty to the more than 60 million Americans who voted for Trump in 2020 – and the refusal by the White House and the Justice Department to answer reasonable questions only adds fuel to their fire.
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Biden and his administration are partisans to their core and they are attempting to humiliate their perceived opponents.  They are doing this before an election that they are likely to lose, and it is unlikely that t a new Republican majority will forget what Biden team has done.