In a brazenly partisan speech delivered in the shadow of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, President Joe Biden had the gall to invoke America’s founding — when bold colonists banded together to declare their independence and fought their way out from the grasp of tyranny — while smearing millions of his fellow citizens as radical, unlawful, and hateful individuals.

Despite insistence from White House — including Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Chief of Staff Ron Klain — earlier on Thursday that Biden’s address would not be political and not about one political party or one political person, the president directly named “Donald Trump”and repeatedly invoked “MAGA Republicans” in his remarks.

While speaking in front of an ominous-looking Independence Hall illuminated with dim red lighting and flanked by military guards, Biden accused these MAGA Republicans — who he’s recently smeared as “semi-fascists” — of harboring “anger,” spreading “chaos,” and living in the “shadow of lies.”

But then he called for Americans not to “see each other as enemies” as he declared millions of Americans to be, well, enemies of democracy.

The president showed apparent ignorance of what happened at the hands of radical Democrats — during the summer of 2020 and outside the homes of Supreme Court justices in the summer of 2022 — by declaring that violence is unacceptable in America. “This is not who we are,” Biden bellowed despite the fact that Democrats were in fact quite violent in recent memory.

Biden called for Americans to “respect the guardrails of the republic” and invoked the “institutions” created during the drafting of the U.S. Constitution — again apparently forgetting that his party is the one seeking to nuke the U.S. Senate’s legislative filibuster, pack the Supreme Court, and abolish the Electoral College.

“I’m asking every American to join me,” Biden said of his quixotic campaign to defend democracy from the threats he enumerated that have mostly been posed by his own party.