In one of his rare sit-down interviews, President Biden was asked last week about an NBC poll showing that an unprecedented 71% of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction.
Biden’s response? “Polls don’t matter anymore.”
Why is the country so divided?
Biden, two years into a presidency in which he has demonized his opponents as semi-fascists,” “ultra MAGA” and “white supremacists,” blamed Donald Trump.
“There was a deliberate effort by the last guy to play on people’s fears...
“It’s gotten too mean, it’s gotten too personal, gotten too divisive.”
He’s right on the last point. People are sick of the double-speak and pure venom coming out of the White House. That’s where the meanness and divisiveness is.
