Devastating to whom?

Republicans and patriots already get it

Democrats don't care. They think smoking crack and perverted sex are no big deal, and Joke Biden is a democrat, so they look the other way no matter what he says.

He could literally say in public "Look, man, I shouldn't say this, but goddammit, Ni----s are just too damn stupid and dangerous for us to just trust them to do the right thing in a given situation. They need to be controlled and told what to do. Controlled and told. Or else, if they get too uppity, they can be controlled and SOLD. Yuh follow me? We democrats have done it before, we created the KKK, we'll put 'em all BACK in chains,"...and left-wing nutjobs wouldn't bat an eye.

There would be no cultural backlash, no political penalty to pay, nothing would happen.

You wouldn't even find out he said it.