Biden Must Denounce The Violence.

Matt Homer
4 min readAug 30, 2020

America burns, and the President of the United States has a message for you. If America elects Joe Biden violence will engulf the streets of America, the violence in the streets of America is Joe Biden’s fault, and America should ignore the fact that the violence in the streets of America started and continues under his Administration.

Makes perfect sense, right?

Trump also expects us to believe that it all magically goes away the day after his re-election-it will not. He also said COVID-19 was going to magically do the same-it did not. Instead of addressing the nation with presidential distinction, with empathy, and with proposed solutions, Donald Trump has decided to use the death of black Americans, civil unrest, and the fears of white Americans as the centerpiece of his reelection campaign.

Presidential leadership matters, presidential rhetoric matters, and the tone of any presidential campaign matters. President Trump should be a president to all Americans-not just the ones that voted for him or the ones he believes will votes for him in the future. But there is no rising to the occasion for Donald Trump. He believes he is the occasion.

During the Republican National Convention, Trump used political appointees as speakers, incorporated the Presidential Seal, and used the White House as a prop for the world’s largest and most fraudulent snake oil convention in history. It is a disgrace to the people’s house, it shamefully rejects decorum, and it violates the law, but hey…

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Matt Homer
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Educator. Writer-ish. Perpetual learner. INFP.