On September 1, 2022, President Joe Biden delivered a blistering, Labor Day speech about the 'clear and present danger' facing our nation by MAGA Republicans. It was direct, clear, and completely truthful. It was necessary, free from hyperbole or exaggeration.
The Battle for the Soul of the Nation
But I’m an American President — not the President of red America or blue America, but of all America.
And I believe it is my duty — my duty to level with you, to tell the truth no matter how difficult, no matter how painful.
And here, in my view, is what is true: MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people.
They refuse to accept the results of a free election. And they’re working right now, as I speak, in state after state to give power to decide elections in America to partisans and cronies, empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself.
His message could not have been more clear. Of course no one person in our country has singular power to make any change: we all depend on the support of others to affect change. Trump doesn't stand without the support of his 'cult,' and President Biden doesn't enjoy success without the support of his party, and others. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but where is the political support from other members of the Democratic Party for the important, 'call to arms' message in President Biden's speech? I heard nothing from them. I heard more of the same from leaders of Republican Party, and nothing from the so-called supporters of President Biden. This abject failure to rally around the President and the dire threat he described is exactly what is so terribly wrong, incomprehensible, and indefensible by the Democratic Party and its leaders.
Absent, and criminally so, given the urgency of his message. Why was it Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson who offered the most support?
"Biden was right: This is an emergency. And he was right to implore the rest of us — Democrats, independents and “mainstream Republicans” — to turn back the MAGA assault on democracy with our votes.
Was it appropriate to use a prime-time address — the venue for presidents to speak to the nation about important affairs of state — to deliver a political message? Yes, because the attack on our democratic norms, as with any attack on our country from actors outside it or within it, is a fundamental threat to the nation. And because that threat, like it or not, can only realistically be seen as partisan in nature.
Was it proper to use Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed, as his backdrop? Absolutely." Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post
Without reservation, the clear and present danger comes from the MAGA Republicans. They are surely and dangerously helped by the complacency and willful failure of their oaths of office by the Democrats.
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