But if I’m to be a semi-fascist, then I think semi-Marxist would do nicely as a descriptive catchall for this crew. Liberal doesn’t work anymore-I think leftists themselves long ago pitched that word into the trash can-and progressive, given our present economic ruin and cultural decay, is ludicrous. 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. “The beauty of democracy?” with a shrug emoji was the reaction tweeted by Bashir Ahmad, a personal assistant to the president of Nigeria, which has seen several coups since independence - including one led decades ago by President Muhammadu Buhari, who most recently entered the office via a vote.That’s one more medallion to add to my string of honorable and not-so-honorable titles. The violence at the US Capitol tarnishes the American insistence that it is a bastion of democracy for countries that have only in recent decades, in some cases, given up autocratic or military-controlled forms of government. “We must call this out for what it is: a deliberate assault on Democracy by a sitting President & his supporters, attempting to overturn a free & fair election! The world is watching! ” Irish Foreign and Defense Minister Simon Coveney said on Twitter, representing a tone of outrage that many world leaders took. That was especially true by those who have been at the sharp end of American military muscle and punitive sanctions. Some watching from abroad held Trump responsible for the chaos, and there was a widespread condemnation that seemed nurtured by the US president’s often antagonistic relationship with countries around the world. “The United States certainly cannot now impose electoral standards on other countries and claim to be the world’s ‘beacon of democracy,'” the foreign affairs chief in the lower house, Leonid Slutsky, told Russian news agencies. Russian lawmaker Leonid Slutsky attends a meeting on human rights at the State Duma in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Nov.
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