Following the 2020 election, there was a collective sigh felt across the media landscape. Yes, Donald Trump was contesting the results and it provided plenty of grist for the journos, but at the same time, the installation of the preferred candidate for the press was looked at with warm expectation. They coddled the doddering candidate, covered for him the numerous times he called a lid on the election trail, and essentially campaigned on his behalf.
The Joe Biden victory was then sold in the press, almost as an insistence of their favoring him, as the return of normalcy and respectability to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Class, dignity, honor, and professionalism were assured to return to the nation’s capital. Now, this summer, as we begin to peer forward to the next election, we have to acknowledge the abject failure of these promised renovations by this First Family.
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…And as for uniting the nation, I think we can call this into question as well, based solely on Biden’s “Red Lecture” speech, delivered last September from Philadelphia.
In that caustic diatribe, Biden called out great swaths of the country and described them in harsh terms, accusing them of some of the harshest actions.
And here, in my view, is what is true: MAGA Republicans do not respect the Constitution. They do not believe in the rule of law. They do not recognize the will of the people.
MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards, backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fanned the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country.
R&I ~ MJM
DGM