This night, President Biden talked about the values of our Founding Fathers; about how all people are created equal in dignity and in their rights. He decried violence and said that this was oppositional to a functional democracy. He did not smear all Republicans, and in fact went out of his way to say he didn't even think the violence-inclined MAGAs were the majority of their party--
And I perused the response on Twitter and elsewhere and heard the sound of a million or so hurt dogs being very, very hit. NO! They want to believe he just demonized HALF THE WHOLE COUNTRY. And this means WAR!!!!!
I think it might be asking too much of Biden's extreme detractors to actually pay attention to the words he said, because words trip them up. They can't hear Biden's words, simply because of where they ideologically came from. This is how their minds work. Just like they can't see the classified docs Trump took as being problematic, they can't imagine anything a Democrat has to say about where we are going as a country can be relevant. It's like a programming problem. They fail to read what it means because liberalism is just an alien program to their hardware and they can't bootstrap compatibility.
This is largely the fault of conservative media for firewalling them from outside influences, but mainstream media isn't exactly helping, here, dwelling on optics over content and failing to use historical context to appreciate the message being sent. Why no--it isn't partisan to appeal to all Americans to live up to what were supposed to be our shared values, and I don't understand why bills that benefit our citizens are supposed to be seen as "partisan" even if it should be clear based on voting records that Democrats are more likely to use their office to do things that actually benefit people.