OPINION: 'Is the problem that Biden doesn’t like the MAGA Republicans’ fascist tactics or that he disagrees with their politics? It is a distinction that he and other Democrats pretend not to see,' writes Sandalow.
The most important line in President Joe Biden’s democracy speech in Philadelphia may also have been its most obvious.
It is a message that should resonate from San Francisco to San Antonio. A close look at his words helps explain why it doesn’t. “MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards, backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love,’’ Biden said before celebrating the passage of Democratic measures on gun control, prescription drugs and global warming.
“In the Congress and across the country, extreme MAGA Republicans are orchestrating a sinister campaign,’’ Pelosi said. “From criminalizing women's health care to ending Social Security and Medicare to undermining our elections, the GOP is working to turn back the clock on many of our most fundamental liberties while fanning the flames of violence and division.’’
That’s how Republicans feel about Biden. . And a photo op in front of a symbolic structure looks farcical, if not downright insulting, if you believe it is insincere. Biden’s point is not that democratic outcomes shouldn’t be vigorously challenged. It’s that political violence and armed insurrections cannot be acceptable responses. Mixing his grievances with Republican policies, and praising his own, muddled the message.
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