President Biden on Friday delivered a ferocious condemnation of Donald J. Trump, his likely 2024 opponent, warning in searing language that the former president had directed an insurrection and would aim to undo the nation’s bedrock democracy if he returned to power.
On the eve of the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by Mr. Trump’s supporters, Mr. Biden framed the coming election as a choice between a candidate devoted to upholding America’s centuries-old ideals and a chaos agent willing to discard them for his personal benefit.
“There’s no confusion about who Trump is or what he intends to do,” Mr. Biden warned in a speech at a community college not far from Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, where George Washington commanded troops during the Revolutionary War. Exhorting supporters to prepare to vote this fall, he said: “We all know who Donald Trump is. The question is: Who are we?”
In an intensely personal address that at one point nearly led Mr. Biden to curse Mr. Trump by name, the president compared his rival to foreign autocrats who rule by fiat and lies. He said Mr. Trump had failed the basic test of American leaders, to trust the people to choose their elected officials and abide by their decisions.
“We must be clear,” Mr. Biden said. “Democracy is on the ballot. Your freedom is on the ballot.”
The “Saving Democracy” messaging is not going to reach people at all. Also, not being Trump is not good enough also. This is going to be rough if Democracy rests on the shoulders of the current leader enabling genocide.
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People should just brace for the worst outcome. Biden losing to someone saying “Day 1 Dictator” is pretty crazy but extremely possible. Trump is good at framing things being better under his run, and people care about their material needs being met.
Too bad those same people can’t see how severely they’re being lied to by Trump.
You say that like Trump would not have enabled genocide in Ukraine
Lemmy doesn’t care about Ukraine anymore. Half the people on here are on some moral high horse like there is a chance that the US wouldn’t be supporting Israel if someone else was in power. Not that it’s okay I think we shouldn’t be sending shit there or supporting what they are doing at all but that’s reality of the situation.
I mean, speak for yourself. Plenty of people care about Ukraine, there’s just no controversy there other than Putin being an asshole. But there’s no legitimate wing of American political discourse that is pro-Putin. It’s just completely obvious that he’s the bad guy and the propaganda never worked wholesale on the American population that he was a good guy. Israeli propaganda has been much more effective on creating a false dichotomy of opinion.
You must not be American because if you were you’d know the GOP is very much pro-putin and behind holding up further aid for Ukraine.
It should be enough. But I fear that you’re right. Everyone here is pretty much on the same page, but Lemmy does not represent the average voter mentality in America.
Exactly. People will see this so-called “democracy” and wonder if it’s even worth saving. The only choices we’re given are if we want things to get worse slower or faster.