Neither the President Nor His Party Will Ever Stop Condescending to You

Joe Biden usually isn’t allowed to do events (or probably even remain awake) after his bedtime, and if today’s hilariously ill-timed gaffe is any indication, then his bedtime is getting earlier and earlier. He was on camera for a Voto Latino get-out-the-vote Zoom call — under most circumstances, perhaps the least interesting place in the United States to be. But in a zombified half-rant responding to the mess made by Tony Hinchcliffe at Donald Trump’s weekend rally, he bitterly dismissed Trump’s supporters — and therefore half the country — as “garbage.” Here is a link.

And here is a transcript of what he actually said:

Just the other day, a speaker at his [Trump’s] rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage. Well, let me tell you something, I don’t—I don’t know, the Puerto Rican that I know, the Puerto Rico where I’m fr—in my home state of Delaware. They’re good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been.