{"id":54422,"date":"2022-08-28T13:55:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T20:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54422"},"modified":"2022-08-28T16:55:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T23:55:51","slug":"biden-was-wrong-to-call-maga-republicans-merely-semi-fascist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54422","title":{"rendered":"Biden Was Wrong to Call MAGA Republicans Merely ‘Semi’ Fascist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catching Republicans being hypocritical has completely lost any sporting challenge. It happens on such a regular basis that a blind archer could hit it after being spun around until dizzy.<\/p>\n

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The latest example of the GOP’s stridently artificial outrage was revealed in their reaction to recent remarks by President Biden about what he has called the “Ultra-MAGA”<\/em> Republican Party. When Republican politicians and pundits heard what he had to say, they rushed to distort his actually words, and to manufacture their alternative version. Because fidelity to reality has never been the right’s strength.<\/p>\n

RELATED: BIDEN: Americans Have a Choice Between Two Very Different Sets of Values: Ultra-MAGA or Sanity<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In a speech at a fundraising event, Biden expressed his view of the fiercely fanatical fear mongers who comprise so much of today’s Republicanism that is drenched in the hostility and ignorance of Donald Trump. Biden prefaced his remarks by explicitly narrowing them to the extremists in the GOP, saying that “I respect conservative Republicans. I don’t respect these MAGA Republicans.”<\/em> Then he went on to address the uber-rightist faction of the party saying that<\/a><\/strong>…<\/p>\n

“What we’re seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy. It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the – I’m going to say something – it’s like semi-fascism.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh my! Now he’s done it. Republicans launched into their customary knee-jerk response mode, wherein they extended Biden’s narrowly intended comments to every member of the GOP. Never mind that Biden specifically directed his criticism to the “extreme MAGA philosophy.”<\/em> He elaborated saying that…<\/p>\n

“The MAGA Republicans don’t just threaten our personal and economic security. They’re a threat to our very democracy. They refuse to accept the will of the people. They embrace political violence. They don’t believe in democracy. This is why in this moment, those of you who love this country, Democrats, Independents, mainstream Republicans, we must be stronger, more determined, and more committed to saving America than the MAGA Republicans are to destroying America.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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"The MAGA Republicans…they're a threat to our very democracy. They refuse to accept the will of the people. They embrace political violence…We must be stronger, more determined, and more committed to saving America than the MAGA Republicans are destroying America." pic.twitter.com\/un0m7LL6Gc<\/a><\/p>\n

— CSPAN (@cspan) August 26, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n