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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As Claire Wolfe said, 'America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.'
“... a sort of Socratic dialogue between the commander in chief and a select group of scholars...”
Slo Joe that they were talking about a playground activity.
It is, but not the way they think.
The threat is coming from inside the White House.
Slo Joe that they were talking about a playground activity.
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Right.
Historians privately warn Biden that America’s democracy is teetering
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JoeB grins and gives the thumbs up sign.
No, quite the opposite. I am sure the Lincoln Playbook chapters on dealing with maryland, suspending Habeas Corpus were strongly recommended as well as a discussion of a National State of Emergency and suspension of the Bill of Rights.
Was Cass Sunsteen there?
As author states.....” multiple people.. spoke on the condition of anonymity “
Then it didn’t happen. Time for people to identify themselves.
Did they warn him that fraudulent elections, almost complete control of the media, suppression of free speech, colluding with big tech and the msm to control information, subverting the DOJ to attack political enemies and using armed FBI agents to arrest and intimidate political foes are all tools of a dictator?/sarc.
“These idiots really have no self awareness or shame.”
In fact, a friend who works for a Federal agency suggested to me a couple nights ago that these people may just be so utterly lacking in self-awareness, they have no idea they’re playing Russian Roulette.
I was born in a republic. When did we get a democracy?
In an odd way, Beschloss is my “favorite” modern historian. The guy is such a partisan gasbag, and he has no self-awareness so he doesn’t even know it.
He used to be a regular guest on Don Imus’ radio show. I still crack up over one exchange on the air shortly after Obama was elected in 2008 …
BESCHLOSS: “Barack Obama is highly intelligent. I believe he may have the highest IQ of any U.S. President in history.”
IMUS: “Really? What’s his IQ?”
The dead silence on the other end of the line was the sound of a man who might have just gotten the first hint in his life that he’s an ‘effing moron. LOL.
It’s eating out the Dems innards
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Why should they care?
The elections from 2020 on are in the bag. Dems total control of the US election system says, landslide Dems. Rant away GOP, Conservatives, MAGAs - makes no difference.
He does not even realize he has been basically brainwashed.
Hard to be brainwashed without having a viable one.
Socratic dialogue. Give me a break. End of story.
Anyone that doesn't get that is lying to themselves.
I’ll bet they urged him to establish a dictatorship to “save” democracy.
What you said was all true....
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