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Joe Biden goes for the jugular: Attacking MAGA insanity could be the winning message for 2024
Joe Biden gave
a speech last week that went largely unnoticed in the press, and it's really too bad. It may have been the best speech he's ever given, and if people actually saw or heard it, it might set their minds at ease a little about his prospects in the next election. He's never been much of a speaker, but when he talks about the threat to democracy he's been excellent. This is his fourth such speech, reflecting a sincere effort on his part to which we should all pay attention. After all, while we're all painfully aware of the right's anti-democratic turn, he is the actual president. It stands to reason he sees this from a different perspective. The fact that he's so determined to sound the alarm should get much more attention than it does.
On the heels of a bizarre impeachment inquiry hearing last week in which Republican House members threw out outrageous smears against Biden without a shred of evidence and a GOP primary debate that had the candidates yelling at each other like drunken football fans, Biden traveled to Arizona to open the John McCain Institute and Library. He spoke at length about his long friendship with the former senator, reminding people of a time when the divisions between the two parties were not as uniformly bitter and hostile as they are now.
But he didn't linger too long on that. He used the legacy of McCain, the never-Trump patriot, to pivot to the MAGA movement's assault on democracy. He said that for the late senator "it was country first," subtly pointing the finger at contemporary Republicans who put Donald Trump before the Constitution. He said:
He talked about what it's like to meet with world leaders who ask him, "Is it going to be OK?" and who wonder whether Americans understand just how unstable this big, powerful country appears to the rest of the world. "There is something dangerous happening in America," he said. "There is an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs of our democracy: the MAGA movement."
He said that movement was not hiding its attacks but was "openly promoting them — attacking the free press as the enemy of the people, attacking the rule of law as an impediment, fomenting voter suppression and election subversion." Then he made his point even more clearly:
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Biden calls out the "vengeance and vindictiveness" of an anti-American "extremist movement." Will the media notice?
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