“Are we a people who will choose democracy over autocracy?” How Joe Biden called out the MAGA 'insurrection' in his MLK Day church speech
. In his speech honoring Dr. King, President Biden said, in “what would’ve been Dr. King’s 94th birthday, we gather to contemplate his moral vision and to commit ourselves to his path” — before taking some barely veiled swipes at MAGA “insurrection” and the current Trumpified state of the Republican Party.
“Some of my colleagues are tired of hearing me saying [this], but we’re at what we call an ‘inflection point,’ one of those points in world history where what happens in the last few years and will happen in the next six or eight years, they’re going to determine what the world looks like the next 30 to 40 years,” BidenSunday, at the church where the slain civil-rights icon once served as a pastor.
“Are we a people who will choose democracy over autocracy? Couldn’t ask that question 15 years ago,” he continued. “Everyone thought democracy was settled. Not for African Americans. But democracy, as an institutional structure, was settled. But it’s not … We have to choose a community over chaos … I believe Dr. King’s life and legacy show us the way we should pay attention.”
Moments later, Biden made his most direct reference in the speech to his predecessor, former President Donald“The battle for the soul of this nation is perennial … It’s a constant struggle between hope and fear, kindness, and cruelty, justice and injustice against those who traffic in racism, extremism,
; a battle fought on battlefields and bridges, from courthouses and ballot boxes, to pulpits and protests,” Biden added.
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