Conservatives all over the country have been using President Joe Biden s call for unity to attack him by criticizing the new president s decision to implement policies different from his predecessor. Nowhere was that more prevalent than on Fox & Friends Thursday morning, which devoted several segments to the claim that Biden shouldn t change anything Trump did if he really wants unity. Our country s got to come together, the Fox News morning show s cohost Ainsley Earhardt told viewers, and Joe Biden said yesterday, I want unity. He talked about that in his speech, but the first thing he does, the first order of business is to walk in, sit down at the table, and he has 17 executive orders really wiping away much of what President Trump did. So, his supporters are saying, How can we have unity if you re taking away everything that we like?
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During Joe Biden s excellent Inaugural speech calling for unity in our country, he mentioned that we must fight against white supremacy and domestic terrorists.
For Fox News conservatives, that was a bridge too far.
Biden s remarks were not controversial, unless you ve got a right-wing political objective to make sure you keep racists happy. The January 6th domestic terrorist attack on the US Capitol by extreme right-wing Trump supporters was terrorism, period.
But to Fox News, their hosts and the equally Rupert Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal, Biden wasn t really calling for unity, but instead he was attacking
all 74 million Trump voters.
President Joe Biden called for “uniting our nation” and ending “this uncivil war that pits red against blue” during Wednesday’s inauguration, while warning about the destructive potential of “lies told for power and for profit.” As if to demonstrate his point, Fox News’ propagandists responded with a wave of grievance-mongering designed to keep their audiences angry, afraid, and tuned in to the network for the next four years.
Notably, the network’s hosts have stressed to their audiences that when Biden and others call for defeating white supremacy and domestic terrorism in light of the deadly January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, they are talking about viewers like them.