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.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
    213·
    1 year ago

    I think this guy sucks, but he’s not wrong here. I’ll vote for him again because as shitty as he is, he’s not going to completely destroy our country and/or destabilize the entire world.

    If Trump is elected, that guy is going to hand Ukraine to Putin, and sever ties between the US and the majority of our allies in Europe.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
      64·
      1 year ago

      If Biden wants to fight extremism he could maybe make the alphabets do something about all the domestic terror threats.

      Maybe by admitting it’s domestic terrorism to threaten to murder your milquetoast political opponents.

    • Catradora-Stalinism☭@lemmygrad.ml
      115·
      1 year ago

      I think this guy sucks, but he’s not wrong here. I’ll vote for him again because as shitty as he is, he’s not going to completely destroy our country and/or destabilize the entire world.

      looking at the state of US foreign politics and the growing tensions with russia and china I think they’re already doing this. Biden will fight with russia and get us killed while trump will fight china and get us all killed.

      Two sides, same coin, yada yada

      • Zetta@mander.xyz
        6·
        1 year ago

        I think you’re a moron.

        We aren’t fighting Russia, and we won’t be fighting them anytime soon. They wont fight us because Ukraine has actually decimated their military in an absolutely hilarious manner . Russia is well aware that they will lose immediately if they escalate, so they won’t.

        I’d be glad if we pissed off China, although nothing will happen in this regard either.