Biden's GOP-Strom Thurmond comparisons anger conservative social media users: 'Always personal attacks'

Several social media users piled on President Biden’s comments this week attacking the current GOP as worse than Strom Thurmond, the longtime U.S. Senator who supported segregationist policies during his career.

Biden made the remarks at a fundraiser on Wednesday, saying the current GOP is worse than the "real racists" he served alongside in the 1970s.

"I've been a senator since '72. I've served with real racists. I've served with Strom Thurmond. I've served with all these guys that have set terrible records on race," Biden told the crowd at the fundraiser, according to the White House press pool.

The president continued, "But guess what? These guys are worse. These guys do not believe in basic democratic principles."

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As the comments went viral, several called out Biden for this comparison and his suggestion that Thurmond supported "basic democratic principles" as a segregationist. Thurmond represented South Carolina in the U.S. Senate from 1954 until his death in 2003. He ran for president on a third-party, pro-segregationist platform in 1948.

"Wait, so Biden thinks Strom Thurmond at least supported ‘basic democratic principles’?" Washington Free Beacon reporter Chuck Ross asked.

NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck wrote, "These are the kinds of comments from Biden being a blatant DIVIDER in chief that will drive people who are otherwise skittish to vote for Trump. Don't ever let the media or the Democrat Party say Biden speaks for and cares about all Americans."

Conservative author Varad Mehta remarked, "Sure, guys like Storm Thurmond didn’t want Black people to vote. But at least they believed in democracy, unlike