President Joe Biden is arguing that “there is something dangerous happening in America” as he revives his warnings that Donald Trump and his allies represent an existential threat to the country’s democratic institutions.

There is an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs of our democracy. The MAGA movement,” Biden says in excerpts of the speech Thursday in Arizona, released in advance by the White House, referring Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan.

Although voting in the 2024 Republican primary doesn’t begin for months, Biden’s focus reflects Trump’s status as the undisputed frontrunner for his party’s nomination despite facing four indictments, two of them related to his attempts to overturn Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.

  • @Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    I think this guy sucks, but he’s not wrong here. I’ll vote for him again because as shitty as he is, he’s not going to completely destroy our country and/or destabilize the entire world.

    If Trump is elected, that guy is going to hand Ukraine to Putin, and sever ties between the US and the majority of our allies in Europe.

    • @DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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      If Biden wants to fight extremism he could maybe make the alphabets do something about all the domestic terror threats.

      Maybe by admitting it’s domestic terrorism to threaten to murder your milquetoast political opponents.

    • Franzia
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      Yeah I saw a poll/survey that said voters found Biden to be “too liberal” and the GOP is just about the right amount of conservative.

      • Queen HawlSera
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        Yeah, targeting the MAGA crowd is not going to work. The Dems need an identity outside of “We aren’t Republicans”

        Edit: That said, I must confess it is good to see they’re finally taking the Right seriously as a threat instead “ThEy WaNT WhAT’s BeSt fOr tHE NaTIon, wE JuSt NeEd A BeTTeR ComPrOmISE”

  • @clutch@lemmy.ml
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    … about fucking time?

    But all politicians are equally at fault for not leglislating to ensure workers have livable salaries and encouraging the “outsourcing” thing that moved jobs overseas so people could buy cheaper Walmart stuff.

  • Hairyblue
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    Joe Biden is right about this. Republicans don’t believe in our democracy and they don’t want people who vote against them to be able to vote.

  • @Rapidcreek@reddthat.com
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    The story of Joe Biden and his incredible perseverance, through hurdles and tragedies, is tremendously relatable to the common citizen. This man dusts himself off and charges headlong back into the fray after every setback. Lesser men would crumble, if faced with his challenges.

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    Well the spineless Republican candidates jockying for the vice presidency aren’t going to say it.

  • Extremism is born out of fear and desperation. And the number one driver of that is financial insecurity. I really wish he would say he was doing something about these fundamental issues: a liveable minimum wage, housing issues, education, and health care. He’s not wrong about these asshole insurrectionist Republicans, but pointing out that their thinking is anti-American and backwards doesn’t really get to the root of the issues.

    • Heresy_generator
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      Oh my god; someone still selling the ridiculous narrative that these white supremacist fascists are being white supremacist fascists because of “economic anxiety”

      https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/us/politics/trump-economic-anxiety.html

      What they fear is losing the privileged status of white supremacy in America; what they’re desperate to stop is a more equal society. They didn’t march demanding more pay, better working conditions, or more upward mobility in Charlottesville, they marched chanting “Jews will not replace us” and “blood and soil.” They’ve been telling us, loudly, for years what it’s all really about and people still want to believe it’s about economics as if there weren’t dozens of very well-off people arrested for trying to attack Congress on January 6th.

      • queermunist she/her
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        . They didn’t march demanding more pay, better working conditions, or more upward mobility in Charlottesville, they marched chanting “Jews will not replace us” and “blood and soil.”

        Yeah, because they’re fucking stupid and they don’t know why they have poor pay, poor working conditions, and no upward mobility. They literally believe it’s a conspiracy by Them to keep the white man down. They’re dummies.

        But that doesn’t actually mean economic factors aren’t the primary motivator. There’s still an underlying, material problem.

        • @Eldritch@lemmy.world
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          They’re no more stupid than leninists. Honestly both having roots being on the authoritarian end of the spectrum. They are an excellent mirror of each other. Having more in common than they are different realistically.

          It’s really isn’t a problem of stupidity. More a problem of taking an ideology or way of thinking as the core of their personality. Combining that with an unwillingness to rationalize or change.

            • @Eldritch@lemmy.world
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              In general I do not. Since realistically Libertarians, anarchists, etc share any of the good ideas leninists might have. Without embodying all the bad things leninists do. As long as were talking true libertarians, social-libertarians. And not the fash friendly, selfish neo-libertarians of privilege on the right.

              Absolute power corrupts absolutely. No matter the intentions behind it.

                • @Eldritch@lemmy.world
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                  A party that’s socially suppresses the people does not represent the people. I say this about capitalism and leninism both. The party should only answer to the people. Not the other way round.

                  Like the farmers that under threat of the party. We’re forced to listen to the lunatic ramblings of Trofim Lysenko. Discarding what they knew would work to follow his unfounded recommendations. Exacerbating famines in Russia China Etc killing Millions. Committees and councils are absolutely bad about inaction. But inaction on genocide and torture I’ll take that any day.

            • @meyotch@slrpnk.net
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              It’s fine to recognize good ideas regardless of source, but politics is so much more than just ideas.

              Centrism, especially at this point in time, may be the most dangerous political philosophy of all. After all, they will cast the decisive votes in 2024. The center of “democracy” and “no democracy” is “less democracy”.

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        It’s undeniable that more economic opportunity would shrink their pool of possible supporters, even if it would never eliminate that pool. We don’t have to stop every from being a white supremacist; we just need to stop them from coming up with the power to topple our government.

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          This reminds me of a good saying. The worst enemy of progress is doing nothing while waiting for a perfect solution. I agree with you.

          Not having anyone doing hateful things would be better, but that’s a terrible reason to just let the problem grow.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    President Joe Biden is arguing that “there is something dangerous happening in America” as he revives his warnings that Donald Trump and his allies represent an existential threat to the country’s democratic institutions.

    The MAGA movement,” Biden says in excerpts of the speech Thursday in Arizona, released in advance by the White House, referring Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan.

    Biden’s speech is his fourth in a series of presidential addresses on the topic, a cause that is a touchstone for him as he tries to remain in office even in the face of low approval ratings and widespread concern from voters about his age, 80.

    In closed-door fundraisers, Biden has spoken at length about reelection, imploring supporters to join his effort to “literally save American democracy,” as he described it to wealthy donors this month in New York.

    Republican state lawmakers used their subpoena power to obtain all the 2020 ballots and vote-counting machines from Maricopa County, then hired Trump supporters to conduct an unprecedented partisan review of the election.

    The money comes from a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package passed in the early months of Biden’s presidency, and the project is in partnership with the with the McCain Institute and Arizona State University.


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      • queermunist she/her
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        I don’t expect anything from Joe “nothing will fundamentally change” Biden.

        But what he could do is use his unparalleled ability to communicate with the public to rally antifascist and progressive forces into direct action against the MAGA movement. Rather than just waiting until the next game of voteball, a united front could stand up and break up the fascists before they became a problem in the first place.

            • Flying Squid
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              Ah, you’re one of those people who think voting doesn’t change anything. Got it.

              • queermunist she/her
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                Well voting isn’t going to actually get rid of these people. They’ll still be here after the election no matter who wins.

                Getting rid of them requires other action.

                • Flying Squid
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                  Oh, I see. You want to start murdering people. Go ahead and start. I’m sure the rest of us will be right behind you.

        • Jeremy [Iowa]
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          Oh, hey, how about that - didn’t expect to see an r/Iowa refugee over here. Welcome to the greener pastures that are generally just as painfully, unthinkingly liberal but far less cancerous.

        • Jeremy [Iowa]
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          That requires active engagement in one’s community beyond vote-shaming and whining on social media - you’re not going to see much of this from either party.

          Actual community involvement is hard. let’s go joe, blue no matter who, if you don’t vote blue you enable fascists etc. is easy and still lets them feel good about doing something… even if it’s ultimately ineffective.

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            I think they especially hate people who vote third party or conscientiously abstain from electoralism because they know, deep down, that none of that shit really matters.

            And if voting doesn’t really matter, they have to face the truth - they have done absolutely nothing at all