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Joe biden speech today11/6/2022 That’s a reference to the threats from Senator Lindsey Graham and others of “rioting in the streets” if Trump were to face charges for taking classified documents home with him after he left the White House. “There are public figures today, yesterday, and the day before predicting and all but calling for mass violence and rioting in the streets,” Biden said. Biden’s sharp speech has only one justification: So much of it is true. The response from Biden’s Republican opponents has been hotter than mere tut-tutting. (An interesting indication of what Democrats are learning from their polling was that student-debt relief went unmentioned in Biden’s list.) To drive home what the speech was all about, Biden turned at the end from his defense of democracy to a reminder of his party’s record of accomplishments over the past two years: COVID relief, infrastructure spending, action to reduce prescription-drug costs, action to slow climate change. It’s wrong.”ĭavid Frum: Kevin McCarthy, have you no sense of decency? We can’t allow violence to be normalized in this country. “Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, “we can’t be pro-insurrectionist and pro-American. But that was a mere courtesy, because he almost immediately added, “There’s no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.” Biden presented the 2022 ballot question as a stark choice between right (his party) and wrong (the party that has become Trump’s party). He briefly drew a distinction between those Trump-loyal Republicans and the bulk of the Republican Party. So last night, President Biden followed the old adage: If you can’t beat them, join them. But the complaints were ineffectual Trump did it again and again. These deviations from past custom elicited some tut-tutting from a few who cared. At Mount Rushmore, he denounced “a new far-left fascism” that seeks “to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values and indoctrinate our children.” Accepting the 2020 Republican nomination on the grounds of the White House, he predicted that his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, would be “the destroyer of American greatness.” He gave a slashing partisan interview to Fox News from the Lincoln Memorial. How dare Biden use this birthplace of the republic to speak that way about former President Donald Trump and his tens of millions of supporters?ĭuring his presidency, Trump repeatedly used places of national memory for partisan purposes. The complaints from GOP leaders are loud. President Joe Biden last night used the backdrop of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall to accuse his political opponents of betraying American democracy.
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