Democrats and the mainstream media have decided the best way to take down President Trump is to convince you that he is a white supremacist and a neo-Nazi.

They want the 2020 presidential election to be about race. And as former Vice President Joe Biden demonstrated, they will stoop to the lowest of levels to reclaim power — even if it means lying.

Now I suspect the former vice president based his argument in part on the mainstream media’s deceptive editing of President Trump’s remarks back in 2017.

They used a partial quote, taken out of context, to falsely accuse the president of being sympathetic to the white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia.

“And you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides,” the president said.

But that was only a portion of the president’s remarks that day. Just a few moments later, he offered this assessment of what happened in Charlottesville:

I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally — but you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers and you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets and with the baseball bats — you had a lot of bad people in the other group too.

It’s one thing to disagree on policy, but it’s another to distort the truth and quite frankly flat-out lie. It proves that Joe Biden and the journalists over at CNN are not people of good character. Anyone who would falsely accuse someone of being a racist is not a good person. That’s downright evil.

There’s something sinister going on in our nation right now –- a re-writing of history. It’s a cultural cleansing. The Left wants to eradicate our culture — whitewash our history.

That’s why the culture jihadists in charge of the Philadelphia Flyers just removed a statue of Kate Smith. That’s why books like To Kill a Mocking Bird and Little House on the Prairie are being banned from public-school libraries.

They want you to believe that any American who defends a Confederate war monument or reads Gone with the Wind is a closet neo-Nazi.

The president raised those issues during the 2017 press conference:

REPORTER: George Washington and Robert E. Lee are not the same.

TRUMP: Oh no, George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status? Are we going to take down – excuse me. Are we going to take down, are we going to take down statues to George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him? Okay, good. Are we going to take down his statue? He was a major slave owner. Are we going to take down his statue? You know what? It’s fine, you’re changing history, you’re changing culture.

It’s a fair question — and I’m afraid we all know the answer. So don’t be surprised if you see a bunch of Democrats scaling Mount Rushmore during the 2020 presidential campaign armed with chisels and jackhammers.