Dick Morris is known for a lot of things: fluffing Donald Trump, attacking President Biden, being wrong a lot. So it was odd to see Morris play the can’t-we-all-just-get-along card in his Thomas Jefferson-invoking Aug. 22 Newsmax column:
In his first inaugural address in 1800, after a bitter election that Jefferson, himself, called a “revolution,” Thomas Jefferson made a plea for national unity and social harmony that we all should strive to adopt in 2024.
So rent was the country by partisan strife as Republican Jefferson faced Federalist John Adams for the right to succeed George Washington, that many feared that an armed conflict, a civil war, might break out.
Friends on opposite sides of the partisan divide stopped speaking to one another, families broke apart, neighbors fought with a savage intensity.
Admidst all this kumbaya, Morris still managed to take a shot at Biden:
In his inaugural address, even as he was scheming to try to impeach Trump even on his way out of office, Biden called for a unity that proved the exact opposite of his real intentions.
But, now, when the issue of the election is still unresolved, let’s all really work to restore the “social harmony” of which Jefferson spoke.
Let’s do it in our own homes, our entertainment, our social events, when we go out for dinner or have couples over.
Ban politics for the night.
We will never be able to convince each other and the dinner table makes a bad rostrum.
By restoring social harmony or, as Jefferson put it “social intercourse” we can make a start at healing America.
Of course, another way Morris could restore social harmony is to condede certain incontrovertible facts — such as that the 2020 election is, in fact, resolved and his buddy Trump lost. A significantpart of today’s social disharmony, after all, is the result of Trump and his supporters — of which Morris is one — refusing to acknowledge reality, or that impeachment was an appropriate response to a president who incited a violent riot.
You want to heal America, Mr. Morris? Stop being so aggressively partisan to the point where you deny reality. He might want to spread that message to his Newsmax co-workers, which aren’t known for telling both sides of the story on its outlets.