President Biden is expected to use a rare prime time address tonight to reiterate attacks he has repeatedly made in recent days on millions of supporters of Donald Trump’s efforts to Make America Great Again.

Biden’s description of “his Republican MAGA friends” as “semi-fascists” in conjunction with calls to restrict gun ownership and loose talk about an impending “civil war” goes beyond rallying the Democratic base in the run-up to a critical mid-term election. The question occurs: Is all this calculated to provoke people on the right, and provide a pretext for a leftist government to crack down on them?

If so, more than just the prospects for a free and fair election are in jeopardy. A prime beneficiary, as is generally true of Team Biden’s policies, would be a Chinese Communist Party seeking to take down our country.

This is Frank Gaffney.