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On Friday, I explained why I thought the president’s prime-time address last week, in which he named the public’s enemy in the course of becoming the people’s partisan, was a BFD among BFDs.
Apparently, I’m not alone. The press and pundit corps spent much of the holiday weekend struggling to balance Biden’s new aggressive posture with the former president’s old aggressive posture, concluding that they are flip sides of the same demagogic coin.
Podcaster Michael Hobbes said Sunday: “We had a presidential address about rising fascism in the United States and instead of debunking any of its actual claims, conservatives and reactionary centrists have spent days complaining about the tone and optics.”
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I think it’s fair to criticize the press and pundit corps’ ridiculous search for the midpoint between the Democratic Party, which represents the gamut of legitimate politics, and “semi-fascism.”
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