Trailing former President Donald Trump in the polls and afflicted with a job approval rating around 40%, President Joe Biden is kicking off his reelection campaign not with a positive message about his accomplishments but with two speeches designed only to divide voters and scare them to the polls.

“Our message is clear and simple,” Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez told reporters about his campaign kickoff. “We are running a campaign like the fate of our democracy depends on it. Because it does.”

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Specifically, Biden began Friday with a speech in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, marking the anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Then he will travel to Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday where he will deliver remarks at the Mother Emanuel AME Church, where nine people were shot and killed in 2015.

Biden intends to tie these two events together, along with the Charlottesville, Virginia, riot of 2017, to make the case that Trump is the head of a white supremacist movement seeking to overthrow the United States government violently.

“Whether it is the white supremacists descending on the historic American city of Charlottesville, the assault on our nation’s capital on Jan. 6, or a white supremacist murdering churchgoers at Mother Emanuel nearly nine years ago, America’s worried about the rise in political violence and determined to stand against it,” Quentin Fulks, Biden deputy campaign manager, told reporters.

In the past, Biden has at least paid lip service to the notion that at least some Republicans are not white supremacist fascists trying to overthrow the government. But not this time. “They also want to take away the freedom to learn by banning books and rewriting and erasing important parts of American history,” Biden campaign communications director Michael Tyler said. “And you have to believe me — just look at Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis for their take on American slavery and the Civil War.”

These are the desperate rantings of a divisive demagogue, someone who might also say that their political opponents would put black people “back in chains,” as Biden did to Mitt Romney in 2012.

As we have said many times before, Trump is unfit for office. But this does not mean he is leading a violent white supremacist movement to overthrow the government. That is pure hysteria. As a recent independent review commissioned by the Pentagon showed, despite the worst delusions of the Democratic Party, the U.S. military has not been infiltrated by right-wing extremists.

Biden is correct in noticing that there has been far too much political violence in the U.S. in recent years. But he is being deeply partisan and divisive in only seeing it one way. It was not Republicans who burnt down cities in 2020 or led a monthslong assault against a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon. It is not Republicans who are blocking freeways and shutting down airports in major cities as Israel fights Hamas. It is not Republicans who are verbally and physically assaulting Jewish people across the country. That violence is all being done by Democrats and their far-left allies.

What this country needs is a leader who can tone down the hatred flowing through both parties right now, someone who has the desire and capacity to call out bad actors on both sides and appeal to those values that still unite us.

Unfortunately, with his divisive, hate-filled campaign kickoff, Biden is proving yet again he is not that man.