The forces of autocracy are rising in the most significant way since World War II, and democracies are in danger of suffering tragic harms, if history is any predictor. This is why the fight in Ukraine is important to us all.
This is where I recommend Biden concentrate his efforts in the State of the Union address. Don’t dwell on a laundry list of policy accomplishments or policy goals ahead as most presidents in the modern age have done. Begin to build the case for a 21st century American narrative laid on a foundation of the common good and humility. Show why it is the"we" which has made America great.
— have caused approximately one-third of all absentee ballots to be rejected. This has overwhelmingly affected the elderly and frail, who have little capacity to go in person to the polls. At a time when expanding the vote should be everyone's goal, not to mention the advances in technology in every area of our lives that make it safer and easier to conduct our personal business, the Texas GOP is showing it wants to step backward.
This is the line Biden must draw in his State of the Union address. In our country and in the world, the forces of autocracy are rising in the most significant way since World War II, and democracies are in danger of suffering tragic harms, if history is any predictor. This is why the fight in Ukraine is important to us all. This is why voting rights in Texas should be important to every American, no matter where you live.
Biden has yeoman’s work to do in his coming speech, but the most essential part of it is a clear and strong renewal of what it means to be an American. The lessons of the Texas primaries are likely to show that if attacks on voting rights are left unchecked, citizens will be disenfranchised and we won't deliver universal suffrage. And if the rise of autocracy continues to escalate in the GOP primaries, the virus of autocracy will infect other states, and beyond.
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