Learn English – the rhetorical strategy called when the author sets up an “us vs them” situation

rhetoric

I know there's a word for that.

It was a speech where Kennedy was demonizing the steel CEO's for raising prices while subtly dropping in words like "we" and "the American people". He was making it sound like it's the American people vs the steel CEO's.

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wedge issue

This is a strategy in politics that forces people to take one side or the other. You can't sit on a wedge (unlike a fence). I am not sure if this is exactly what you are after. Maybe:

Creating a divide

Or

Divisive politics

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