President Biden's attempts to talk up democracy in Europe this week are facing headwinds from back home, where revelations about the Justice Department's attempts to obtain Democrats' data have raised new concerns about the state of American politics.
Throughout his time here, Biden is making the case to American allies that democracy must prevail over a rising tide of authoritarianism. His argument has been that democracies are better at providing for their people and the world.He has openly acknowledged that democracies are often messy. But he said this week that the world had reached an"inflection point" where the competition between democracy and autocracy is coming to a head.
Biden was hoping to lend credence to the notion when he unveiled a major new pledge of 500 million vaccine doses that will be donated to lower-income nations, proof in his mind that democracies like America can better help the world than countries like China or Russia.Unveiling the pledge, he made clear the doses wouldn't come with the same baggage that those offered by Beijing or Moscow.
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