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Historians privately warn Biden that America’s democracy is teetering
Washington Post ^ | 8/10/22 | By Michael Scherer, Ashley Parker and Tyler Pager

Posted on 08/16/2022 2:33:04 PM PDT by EBH

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To: EBH
Biden doesn't care. He has always been a grifter.
61 posted on 08/16/2022 3:14:13 PM PDT by RetiredScientist
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To: frank ballenger

I can wrack my brain for hours, and I couldn’t imagine a scenario where Donald Trump is President of the United States and would waste even five seconds of his life in a stupid meeting with a bunch of losers like “presidential historians.”


62 posted on 08/16/2022 3:14:24 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: EBH

Then those “historians” have no better knowledge of history than the average democrat.

We’re not a democracy. We’re a Constitutional Republic.


63 posted on 08/16/2022 3:14:37 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: Grampa Dave

You got that right!


64 posted on 08/16/2022 3:15:07 PM PDT by RetiredScientist
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To: Grampa Dave

You got that right!


65 posted on 08/16/2022 3:15:15 PM PDT by RetiredScientist
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To: EBH

Well, a huge part of the problem is that they view anyone who opposes leftism as a fascist whose opinions should be suppressed.


66 posted on 08/16/2022 3:15:49 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: EBH

I agree. The Russia Hoax was the single most corrosive event to our democracy.


67 posted on 08/16/2022 3:16:20 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: EBH
It was the same storm which killed the tourists.

The historians invited seem to have represented a narrow range of left-wing historians. Sean Wilentz was a "red diaper baby" if I'm not mistaken. Michael Beschloss was involved in that recent conversation with the former head of the CIA salivating about the possibility of Donald Trump being sent to the electric chair. Allida Black is an expert on Eleanor Roosevelt and publisher of Eleanor Roosevelt's papers.

The latest poll of US Presidents by academic historians put Trump at #41 (tied with Franklin Pierce and with only Andrew Johnson and James Buchanan ranked lower)--which tells you more about the historians polled than it does about President Trump. But of course you would not expect Biden to invite any historians not known to be Trump-haters.

Victor Davis Hanson is not a specialist on American history so it would not be surprising that he would not be invited. He is an ancient historian by training.

68 posted on 08/16/2022 3:18:49 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: RoosterRedux

Another lie. He was actually born here:

https://www.mapquest.com/ukraine/dementiivka-283522431


69 posted on 08/16/2022 3:19:34 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: EBH

Sounds like an echo chamber or a party Congress.


70 posted on 08/16/2022 3:19:49 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: EBH

More bait.


71 posted on 08/16/2022 3:19:56 PM PDT by viewfromthefrontier
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To: EBH

We need power back to the states.


72 posted on 08/16/2022 3:20:10 PM PDT by Bloodandgravy (Thru a glass crusty...)
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To: EBH; wardaddy; MtnClimber

“Historians privately warn Biden that America’s democracy is teetering”

“When Biden met with historians last week at the White House, they compared the threat facing America to the pre-Civil War era and to pro-fascist movements before World War II”

By Michael Scherer, Ashley Parker and Tyler Pager / August 10, 2022

If you are able, and this link seems to jump past paywalls, please read the comments by WaPo readers.
They sincerely believe that Trump is the 2nd coming of Adolf Hitler, that the heroic DOJ/FBI attempts to stop him last time did not yet succeed, and Nazi-Fascist Trumpist Republicans are just ITCHING to go to violent terrorism to get their man back into the White House.

The Glorious Valiant Patriotic FBI Super Agents who raided Mar A Lago are literally the greatest American Super Heroes since I don’t know when.

It’s mind blowing to see how the Woke Left sees Constitutional conservatives.
Read their comments to fully understand that the USA we grew up in is DEAD, blown up, decapitated, and way past dead and rigor mortised to rotten and maggot infested.

My advice: MOVE TO A CONSERVATIVE STATE ASAP, even if you have to “bug out” in an improvised RV. Don’t be like the Jews who stayed behind in Hitler’s Germany, thinking, “It Can’t Get Worse Than This!” OH YES, it CAN.


73 posted on 08/16/2022 3:20:30 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: EBH

Obidens’ couldn’t
Care Less about the
Destruction!!!
It’s the Plan,Sam.


74 posted on 08/16/2022 3:21:25 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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To: EBH

It’s not a democracy it’s a republic.


75 posted on 08/16/2022 3:22:09 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: EBH

Lemme guess.

Doug Kennedy and Michael Beschloss are in the FRONT ROW!


76 posted on 08/16/2022 3:22:12 PM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: EBH

The UNITED STATES is a REPUBLIC.


77 posted on 08/16/2022 3:23:06 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. - Psalm 33:12)
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To: pepsi_junkie

Are they suggesting he stop transforming the FBI into a gestapo arm of the dem party? Otherwise if they are saying that democracy is dying because some people are allowed to disagree with leftists than they are dangerous morons.

the latter, because this WaPo article is a typical “appeal to authority” article. It’s not Biden warning of those evil Republicans and that Fascist Trump putting “our democracy” (i.e. Dem control) at risk, it’s these experts in history saying it. Sort of like those security experts who said the Hunter Biden laptop was Russia disinformation.


78 posted on 08/16/2022 3:25:37 PM PDT by Flick Lives (FJB and the corrupt FBI)
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To: Liz

You overestimate the desire and the innate cognitive ability of people like my SIL who watches Nicolle WallAss and supposedly retains the ability to think critically.


79 posted on 08/16/2022 3:28:02 PM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: EBH
When Biden met with historians

I would be interested in knowing how many of these so-called historians are democrat vs conservative republicans? If I were a betting man ....

80 posted on 08/16/2022 3:28:25 PM PDT by JesusIsLord
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