“This is like something out of a fairy tale, a bad fairy tale.”
That line, from the speech of President Joe Biden at Valley Forge this week, may have been the most accurate observation in the entire address kicking off Biden’s 2024 campaign.
The speech was a masterpiece of contradiction. Biden started by denouncing how Donald Trump’s campaign is only “about him” and “obsessed with the past.” He then spent virtually all of the speech obsessing about Trump and Jan. 6, 2021.
It was an early indication of the Orwellian character of the speech. Facing the lowest polling numbers of any modern president, Biden attempted a constructive substitution. “Democracy is on the ballot,” he said. So voters do not have to vote for him. When they see Biden, they should just read “democracy.”
That will require more than an act of substitution in the voting booth. It would require an act of willful blindness.
Biden spoke of how Democrats are fighting to protect the “right to vote.” Democratic activists and officials across the country are seeking to remove Trump from the ballot even though he is the most popular choice for the presidency right now.
In fact, dozens of Democratic officials have sought to remove 126 Republicans from Congress on the same basis. Even as Biden was telling citizens to vote Democrat to preserve democracy, a Democratic activist was seeking to remove a GOP congressman from the ballot in a nearby Pennsylvania district.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-joe-biden-is-no-george-washington-and-valley-forge-proved-it/ar-AA1myuCY
Nice deconstruction. Thanks for pointing out......
<><>Biden at Valley Forge spoke of “concerned” Democrats fighting to protect the “right to vote”.......
<><>even as power-hungry Dems across the nation are denying MAGA Americans their right to vote.
Desperate candidate Biden was telling citizens they “had to vote Democrat” to “preserve democracy,” at the same time he knew Democrat power-mongers were next door, plotting to remove a GOP congressman from the ballot in Pennsylvania.
Getting the popular Trump off the ballot so Biden can hang on to power is the name of the game.
Biden’s speech is NOTHING BUT PROJECTION!! The Dems are ALWAYS GUILTY of what they accuse Republicans of doing!!
Excellent piece by Jonathan Turley.