On Sept. 1, Biden stood before a red background at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall and said “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” A week earlier, Biden told his audience at a fundraiser in Maryland that the “extreme MAGA philosophy” is “like semi-fascism.” At the reception for the Democratic National Committee on Sept. 8, Biden said “extreme MAGA Republicans just don’t threaten our personal and economic rights; they embrace political violence … They threaten our very democracy.”
Hardage, a service-disabled veteran, CEO and Co-Founder of Remote Health Solutions, agrees. He described Biden’s Independence Hall speech as a “Nazi propaganda film,” adding that it was “very unprofessional” to have Marines standing behind him because the military is “supposed to be apolitical.”
“These are very dangerous times from a very dangerous and committed group of ideologues,” Hardage told The Epoch Times. “Frankly, it’s unbelievable where we are. It is very dangerous language for a sitting president to vilify half of the American population. The statements he is making are very inciteful and irresponsible. It was the most inciteful and dangerous political event I’ve seen in my 47 years. I don’t know how else to phrase it.”
A Trafalgar Group/Convention of States Action poll conducted Sept. 2–5 found that over half of America’s Likely General Election Voters, 56.8 percent, said Biden’s speech “represents a dangerous escalation in rhetoric” and was “designed to incite conflict amongst Americans.”
