No, there's nothing 'demagogic and dangerous' about a president taking the side of democracy

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.editorialboard.com/p/no-theres-nothing-demagogic-and-dangerous

Earlier this month, I introduced you to the concept of the Very Serious Debate Club. This is about half the pundit corps in Washington, I guessed, columnists and talking heads who believe everything in politics is as good or bad as everything else, and that nothing matters except whether or not they appear to be on the winning side. They are immensely clever, highly educated, almost always born successful and hence respected. At the same time, they don’t really care about much of anything they say, because the point of debate isn’t being wrong or right but instead the glorification of the debater.

In short, they are cynical, opportunistic and amoral. If politics has clear moral sides—for instance, whether free, full and fair elections are key to the identity of a country like ours claiming to be a democracy—members of the Very Serious Debate Club will strive mightily to ascertain ways of muddying up the moral picture so that those who do take sides seem to be the real culprits since extreme points of view, however moral or immoral, are presumed bad bad bad, even if an extreme view is pro-democracy.

The president took a clear moral side in a speech Tuesday. He went so far as to name the enemies of the republic. “There’s an unfolding assault taking place in America today, an attempt to suppress and subvert the right to vote in fair and free elections,” Joe Biden said. “An assault on democracy, an assault on liberty, an assault on who we are as Americans. … Bullies and merchants of fear, peddlers of lies are threatening the very foundation of our country.1 It gives me no pleasure to say this. … But I swore an oath to you, to God, to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution. That’s an oath that forms a sacred trust to defend America against all threats, both foreign and domestic.”

The speech arose from efforts by state Republicans to codify into state law Donald Trump’s Big Lie about voter fraud being the reason he lost the 2020 presidential election. Anyone reading believe the lines, which is to say anyone can read between these lies, could see that Trump and the Republicans are those domestic threats.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. The Pig did that, so it is necessary to the christofasict mind to accuse Biden of the same.

[lagomorph777]

2. "I swore an oath to you, to God, to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution."

In this time of dire emergency, it's clear that honoring that oath requires two things:

(1) Kill the FIlibuster.
(2) Expand SCROTUS.

Go for it, Joe!