Biden Claims Current Republicans Are Worse Than the ‘Real Racists’ He Served With in the Senate

President Joe Biden must be scared to death about his political future.

His is now coming out with a new attack against Congressional Republicans: they are worse than actual racists.

During a fundraiser on Wednesday, Biden said, “I’ve been a senator since ’72. I’ve served with real racists. I’ve served with Strom Thurmond. I’ve served with all these guys that have set terrible records on race.”

Side note, he has not been a senator since 2009. Perhaps he forgot he’s the president.

“But guess what? These guys are worse. These guys do not believe in basic democratic principles,” he added.

In one sense, perhaps we should be thankful for Biden inadvertently pushing back on notion that people in history should viewed as horrible people because of beliefs they held that were abhorrent regardless of what good and honorable things they did.

By his argument, all criticism of Jefferson and Washington and the Founding Fathers should end because they upheld democratic principles. Yay!

OK, back to the matter at hand.

This writer has not been a fan of the performative, clownish, conspiratorial, nature that has dominated the House Republican majority. But come on! Are you for real? To say that Republicans, who sure say and do a lot of really dumb and embarrassing things, are worse than actual racists, who deny everyone is created equal, is so outlandish and outrageous.

Whether Biden actually believes current Republicans are worse than racists and segregationists is unclear. He tends to just say things in fundraisers when there are not a bunch of cameras and he seems to think he can say whatever, like in a 2022 fundraiser when he claimed