I suspect we’ll hear a lot about “MAGA Republicans” between now and Nov. 8, about how they’re “a threat to our democracy,” or as President Biden has put it, how they “represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.”
Joe Biden, understandably, wants to be taken seriously, especially when he goes public on weighty matters. But he’s making it awfully difficult to take him seriously when he likens “MAGA Republicans” to “semi-fascists” and uses them as a shield to deflect attention from his own failures.
Should we take Biden seriously, knowing that he failed to tell Democrats to stop spending millions of dollars to buy ads that help nominate the most extreme Republican candidates in primaries, the very ones he claims are “an existential threat to democracy”? What if they wind up winning in November’s general election, thanks to money from Democrats? Then they’d be an even bigger threat to democracy, wouldn’t they? Yet, Joe Biden hasn’t condemned this because his party has made a hardball political calculation that those “MAGA Republican” candidates will be easier to beat in the midterm elections.
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