I’ve long had difficulty finding an appropriate name that would describe the president and his supporters. In one way, however, Joe Biden’s rhetoric inspired me.
But the photo, of course, was real, and so were Joe’s bitter words as he denounced Republicans and MAGA Americans as storm troopers bent on driving the country into dictatorship and servitude. When I first saw the photo of him at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall flanked by two armed Marines, all set against a red backdrop that looked like the gateway to hell, I laughed, thinking some angry conservative had created a meme. I deliberately avoided watching this speech, figuring I’d catch the highlights in the morning. 1 st address on the soul of the nation in which he expanded on his earlier diatribe. They’ve increased federal regulations, demolished our fossil fuel industry, politicized federal law enforcement agencies, and suppressed information on social media. After less than two years in office, he and his administration, aided and abetted by Congressional leaders and federal agencies, have allowed millions of illegal immigrants into the country, rendered the economy a shambles, made a debacle of our nation’s retreat from Afghanistan, and severed the bonds of an already divided nation by their rhetoric and embrace of critical theory. No one would ever accuse Uncle Joe of exalting our nation. The word fascism has trended for days on, which defines it as ‘a political philosophy, movement, or regime … that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.’ Sound like anyone you know? Near the end of his essay, Barg delivered a remark that made me burst out laughing: Writer Jeffrey Barg mocks the outraged conservative response to Biden’s label of semi-fascist in an article for The Philadelphia Inquirer, insisting that Republicans are “feigning the same outrage they mustered for Hilary Clinton’s ‘basket of deplorables’ and Barack Obama’s ‘clinging to guns and religion’ comments.”
Which means that about half of American voters qualify as a goose-stepping gang of Nazis. Supporters of Trump are now apparently enemies of the state who despise the Constitution. Semi-fascism is the label President Joe Biden slapped on Donald Trump’s MAGA philosophy in a late August speech. That’s one more medallion to add to my string of honorable and not-so-honorable titles.
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