Posted on 08/16/2022 2:33:04 PM PDT by EBH
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
President Biden paused last week, during one of the busiest stretches of his presidency, for a nearly two-hour private history lesson from a group of academics who raised alarms about the dire condition of democracy at home and abroad.
The conversation during a ferocious lightning storm on Aug. 4 unfolded as a sort of Socratic dialogue between the commander in chief and a select group of scholars, who painted the current moment as among the most perilous in modern history for democratic governance, according to multiple people familiar with the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private meeting.
Comparisons were made to the years before the 1860 election when Abraham Lincoln warned that a “house divided against itself cannot stand” and the lead-up to the 1940 election, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt battled rising domestic sympathy for European fascism and resistance to the United States joining World War II.
The diversion was, for Biden, part of a regular effort to use outside experts, in private White House meetings, to help him work through his approach to multiple crises facing his presidency. Former president Bill Clinton spoke with Biden in May about how to navigate inflation and the midterm elections. A group of foreign policy experts, including former Republican advisers, came to the White House in January to brief Biden before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
These meetings have come as Biden faces the isolation that is endemic to presidency, a problem that some Democrats say has been worsened by the coronavirus pandemic, which restricted visitors through much of the first year of his presidency, and...
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Is this the same storm that killed those people outside the White House?
Incredible coincidence
Lightning strike near White House leaves 3 dead, 1 injuredhttps://www.npr.org › 2022/08/05 › lightning-strike-near-...
Aug 5, 2022 — Three people were killed and another was in critical condition after lightning struck at the park next to the White House in Washington, ...
Wow!
These idiots really have no self awareness or shame.
The Mar-a-Lago raid is concrete evidence that the US has passed a significant point of no return.
I will never view the United States in the same light.
There is no going back from This.
This is behind the iron curtain stuff
Can we assume the “select group of scholars” did not include Victor Davis Hanson?
Who knows?
The calm before the storm?
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🤣🤣🤣🤣
O.M.G. I think I broke something...
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 Biden Crime Family is part of The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate.
You can see where this is going...
“battled rising domestic sympathy for European fascism”
Despite all evidence to the contrary Godwin’s Law is now in effect:
Call someone who disagrees for you “literally” Hitler (that is, Orange Man Bad).
So the fascists (that’s us, even if you are an elderly veteran who fought the fascists) are so evil that any evil is permissible to stop them.
Even if it means having a merger of state and corporate power to crush them.
Democracy depends on it, really, just ask Mussolini.
The only purpose of this article is to condition the American public into accepting the federal government’s right to suspend our civil liberties.
How convenient that American democracy is teetering right before midterm elections where the Dems are projected to lose power.
It probably isn’t a warning. Since the demise of America’s democracy is what Biden’s goal always has been, it’s simply a status report.
Lies. Any reporters get a one on one with Biden and ask him to repeat what these folks said?
If only we were a democracy I’d worry....
Oh, one more thing.
Baraq 0bama famously said, “ do not discount the ability of Joe Biden to fu@k up.”
Only thing the Kenyan got right.
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DEMS HAVE TO GET RID OF HIM.
It’s eating out the Dems innards Everytime they see another Trump triumph
-——endless winning Trump-endorsed candidates
-——thousands at Trump rallies
-—— his own social media
-——knowing Dems/Biden stole the election
-——millions scorning the Biden/Garland/Fbi raid
——BIDENS approval numbers in quicksand.
Kind of frightening to think they had to school him on this stuff or even inform him he’s lost the country.
That to me is what this article indicates, they know they’ve lost the nation.
When Leftists say “our Democracy”, they mean their control over the nation’s economy.
The American middle-class is hurting, and I think the level of support for white people enduring deprivation in order to advance “social justice” goals is evaporating.
We are supposed to put up with a lot to “empower marginalized communities”. Well, at some point, more people are going to start saying “Screw ‘marginalized communities’! WE, the white middle and working classes, WE have become marginalized, and we don’t feel like taking it any more!”
The Left fears this.
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