As your Patriot Post team prepares to take a break for the Christmas holidays, we thought: What better way to wrap up our last edition of 2022 than with a story about all the unity brought by Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden?

Hahaha! Hohoho!

To be sure, a whopping 70% of Americans are unified on Joe Biden — that he should not run for reelection in 2024. (Mark Alexander is among those who predict he won’t.) To be fair, Donald Trump doesn’t poll much better, as 61% say he should hang up the spurs. Other than stubborn partisans or personal fans, most Americans view the last three presidents as rather divisive. So there’s some unity on that at least.

Biden gave a pre-Christmas speech at the White House yesterday, and it was a remarkably good one … had it been delivered by someone else. Someone who didn’t have a record of gross division while pretending to be unifying.

There was much for us to like. For example, Biden spoke of the Christmas story of the child who came and the hope he brought. Strangely, however, he never once mentioned the words “Jesus” or “Christ.” “The message of hope, love, peace, and joy,” he said, is “universal.” Indeed it is.

The speech was also full of things that Democrats led by Joe Biden contradict on a daily basis.

“We’re truly blessed to live in this nation,” Biden said. Yes we are, though you wouldn’t know it from listening to anyone from his party. “There is so much that unites us as Americans, so much more that unites us than divides us,” he said. Why, then, do Democrats harp on and exacerbate the things that divide?

“Our politics has gotten so angry, so mean, so partisan,” he lamented. “And too often we see each other as enemies, not as neighbors; as Democrats or Republicans, not as fellow Americans. We’ve become too divided.”

Who was it who just a couple of months ago gave a Nazi-backdrop tirade condemning all the supposed authoritarian fascists running the Republican Party? Oh, that’s right — it was Joe Biden. Whose party just yesterday put out its final report on the so-called Insurrection™ staged by the opposing party’s president? Democrats did.

We’re not going to pretend for a second that rioting at the Capitol was unifying, of course, and we’ve condemned the rioters many times. That does not, however, mean it was an “insurrection” that jeopardized our Republic. It also does not mean Democrats didn’t screw around with the last presidential election to the point that a few hundred Americans at the Capitol lost their cool about it, while millions more remain angry over the injustice and unfairness of it all. We’re not justifying the riot. We’re explaining the anger.

Speaking of January 6, Nancy Pelosi joined in the Christmas “unity” fun with remarks of her own yesterday, saying farewell as speaker and anticipating “transitioning to a different role.”

After lauding Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky following his speech to Congress, Pelosi transitioned to “a focus on democracy here at home.” She praised the “tireless” work of her sham J6 Inquisition to get to the bottom of what happened pin the blame for the Capitol riot on Donald Trump. The committee’s “patriotic leadership,” Pelosi said, will help ensure “justice will be done and that this won’t happen again.” Please.

She then proceeded to, well, implicitly deny the 2016 election. Recounting her time as leader and speaker “under President Bush, under President Obama, under what’s-his-name, and … under President Biden,” she added, “three different presidents, two different roles.” We know Nancy is 82 and more than a little flaky, but that was four presidents.

Is it unifying that the same speaker who literally tore up President Trump’s State of the Union address and threatened on January 6 to “punch him out” now can’t even utter his name or list him in the count of presidents?

There’s no question Trump was a divisive figure. That’s why we in our humble shop used to have options for folks who unsubscribe to tell us they were leaving because we’re “too pro-Trump” or “too anti-Trump.” It was split nearly 50-50, which speaks volumes about how well we’re doing our job, if the managing editor does say so himself.

But Pelosi and Biden are far worse. Trump actually loves America and what it stands for, and he worked to defend and advance that cause. By contrast, Pelosi and Biden clearly are committed to what Barack Obama famously called a “fundamental transformation.” You don’t fundamentally transform something you love.

We certainly wish the message and defense of American Liberty was more unifying than it is. But Liberty and self-sufficiency are hard. Personal responsibility and devotion to country are difficult.

Worse, millions of Americans are ignorant thanks to miseducation in public schools, and they’d rather have the nanny state “take care” of them than enjoy the independence to pursue happiness on their own steam. That’s why so many Republicans joined with Democrats to pass the latest disgraceful $1.7 trillion omnibus. Others realize there’s a lot of money to be made killing preborn babies, “transitioning” children and adults, fomenting racial grievances, or crushing free speech.

Thankfully, our Founders didn’t create a system of government that would bring unity. They weren’t entirely united themselves, in fact. They knew that unity is not really in the cards for human beings, who by nature have different and sometimes competing interests and desires.

The Founders gave us a federalist Republic that would endure even as fallible people divide over policies or practices. They gave us a Constitution that separated powers, guarding our rights and our Liberty even against the foul wishes and work of power-hungry politicians like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi.

Kings and tyrants enforce unity. Republics allow free people to work out and live with their differences.

All in all, we Americans do indeed have much to be thankful for in our still great nation. Those of us who hold to the Christian faith have even more reason for giving thanks because our hope is based on the eternal and effective work of Jesus Christ.

Merry Christmas to all, and a Happy New Year!