President Joe Biden says there's an extremist movement that doesn't share the basic beliefs of democracy.

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.

  • Jeremy [Iowa]English
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    1 year ago

    I think the right move for the rest of us right now is to support the group who is in support of democracy.

    Oh? So “support this candidate” is somehow mutually exclusive with providing valid criticism of missteps and flaws?

    That seems like a degree of intentional ignorance.

    • trainsaresexy@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That’s not what I’m saying and you know it.

      Not here to argue I’m just here to present my side. If you’re not interested then I’ll stop engaging.

      • Jeremy [Iowa]English
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        1 year ago

        Frankly, if that’s somehow not what you’re saying, I’m not sure how else one would interpret such a response to

        “withhold criticism from this candidate because the other is worse” is not the defense you seem to think it is.

        and the preceeding suggestion of exactly that.