President Biden has borrowed a page right out of Vladimir Putin’s playbook. As someone who was raised in the USSR, I am all too familiar with the tactic of divisive, inflammatory rhetoric and scapegoating that the Soviet government used to foment hatred among its own citizens in order to keep permanent control.
As a former DIA intelligence officer who specializes in Russian affairs and Putin’s doctrine, I am stunned at how adept the Democrats have become at Soviet-style tactics.
Unable to control soaring inflation, skyrocketing gas prices and looming shortages of critical items such as baby formula — all the direct result of his administration’s socialist policies — Joe Biden has recently turned to labeling Americans with strong conservative views “ultra-MAGA.”
This new narrative is nothing but a tactic deployed to fracture the GOP’s already waning unity and blame Republicans for America’s economic woes, in the hope of driving more voters into the ranks of the Democratic Party ahead of the midterm elections.
“This MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history,” Biden said to journalists at the White House in early May. He then doubled down on his attack on conservatives by calling the policy proposal by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who runs the GOP Senate campaign arm, the “ultra-MAGA agenda.”