Today, on the anniversary of the afternoon Trump and his people tried to topple democracy itself, President Biden found his mettle and delivered the most important, and perhaps the best, speech of his entire political career.
“America will always do the right thing,” British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once wryly observed, “but only after they have tried everything else.” While I like a good hot take as much as the next fellow, there are enough holes in this one to qualify it as a form of cheese.do the right thing, unless the “right thing” is meant as the “right-wing thing,” in which case the quip is both accurate and wrong simultaneously.
“The big lie being told by the former president and many Republicans who fear his wrath is that the insurrection in this country actually took place on Election Day, November 3, 2020,”Biden this morning alongside Vice President Kamala Harris. “Is that what you thought when you voted that day? They want you to see Election Day as the day of insurrection and the riot that took place here on January 6th as a true expression of the will of the people.
“While Republicans assault voting rights and the integrity of our elections, what fuels their advances is the rise of a gullible sector of the public ready to follow their leaders wherever they go,”. “What’s often described as a weakness of the Democratic Party — the existence of a variety of views and positions, freely debated or even fought over, and a restless, questioning electorate — is a strength of democracy.
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