Biden calls for unity after Buffalo, and conservatives see another cause for division
CNN
America now has a President who will call evil by its name.
But Joe Biden's pleas for citizens to unite in purging White supremacy, which he warned on Tuesday was poisoning the nation, were quickly undermined by a backlash from conservative media stars who accused him of exploiting the murder of 10 Black Americans in Buffalo by a right-wing extremist.
The disconnect reflected how the aching polarization and tribalism of the country's politics preclude any hope of common ground, even after the horror that unfolded in a supermarket in the western New York city on Saturday. Far from bringing America together, every successive tragedy appears to pull it further apart.
Hours after President Joe Biden touted its success during his commencement speech at West Point last Saturday, White House staffers learned that the temporary pier the military had just constructed into Gaza was falling apart. Four Army vessels had been beached, two in Gaza and two along the coast of Israel.
President Joe Biden asserted Friday that Hamas has been degraded to a point where it can no longer carry out the type of attack that launched the current 8-month conflict in Gaza, laying out a three-phase proposal Israel has submitted to wind down the grinding crisis as he declared, “It’s time for this war to end.