“To restore the soul and to secure the future of America,” President Joe Biden proclaimed in his inaugural address, “requires that most elusive of things in a democracy: Unity. Unity.”

Biden mentioned “unity” nine times in that speech, even admitting, “I know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy.” But, he assured us, “without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury.”

THE STATE OF OUR UNION IS WORSE OFF BECAUSE OF JOE BIDEN

Over and over again, Biden has touted “unity” as the solution to what ails our nation. Two years into his presidency, and days before Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday (during which he will undoubtedly trumpet unity again), Biden should start listening to his own rhetoric.

Biden has been anything but the great unifier he promised to be when he took office. At a fundraiser last August, Biden said he respected “conservative Republicans” but not “MAGA Republicans” (which, by the way, is a good portion of them). These he compared them to semi-fascists.

After Georgia passed commonsense voter ID reforms, Biden called those “Jim Crow 2.0.” When the state saw record turnout in the runoff following the 2022 midterm elections — which sent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) to the Senate and kept the chamber under Democratic control — press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre brushed off questions about whether this law was still an instance of institutional racism.

Biden’s vice president, “ a fearless fighter for the little guy, ” has called pro-life politicians “extremists” for, well, fighting for the little guy. (But when it’s convenient, Kamala Harris can also spew the unity talking points.)

Not content to attack pro-lifers rhetorically, Biden has weaponized his Department of Justice against them. In September, the DOJ indicted Catholic, pro-life father Mark Houck for pushing a Planned Parenthood volunteer after the man harassed Houck and his son.

Although a suit against Houck, brought by the pro-abortion activist, had been dropped, the DOJ took up the case to charge Houck with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act — and to intimidate any pro-lifer who would dare peacefully minister outside of an abortion clinic. Biden’s DOJ sent a SWAT team to swoop into Houck’s home, arresting him in front of his seven children. The charges, which came with a potential 11-year prison sentence, were always ridiculous. This week, Houck was acquitted .

The DOJ doesn’t just have knives out for pro-lifers . In 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland targeted parents who speak out at school board meetings over COVID-19 restrictions and other issues by releasing a memo directing the FBI to investigate “threats of violence” against school boards.

Apparently, the DOJ took a cue from the “words are violence” crowd; just one day after Garland released the memo, a Michigan mother whose special needs child was suffering during remote learning was reported to the DOJ by her school board. Her crime? Arguing that school should open back up.

Garland's memo was a result of lobbying by the National School Boards Association, which claimed that parents it dislikes are the equivalent of domestic terrorists.

To the Biden administration, Trump supporters are fascists, pro-lifers are extremists, and parents are terrorists. Is this the return to normalcy we were promised? For the past two years, the Biden administration has been hard at work systematically demonizing its enemies. So when Biden calls for unity at his State of the Union speech, remember: Civility isn’t for everyone. It’s only for those who support our unifier-in-chief .