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Biden’s Demagogic Habits
American Spectator ^ | April 14, 2021 | George Neumayr

Posted on 04/17/2021 5:18:04 PM PDT by ebb tide

Biden’s Demagogic Habits

Ronald Reagan once called Joe Biden a “smooth but pure demagogue.” Biden is not so smooth anymore, but he certainly remains a demagogue. Biden’s preference for demagoguery to debate defines his career. For all his talk of civility and unity, he would much rather call his opponents names than address their arguments. Biden’s description of Georgia’s new election law as “Jim Crow on steroids” is typical of his demagoguery. It’s a comment as incendiary and heedless as his 2012 assertion that the policies of Mitt Romney were going to put blacks “back in chains.”

By equating a manifestly nonracist election law with segregation, Biden renders all of his comments on racism unserious. He is looking not to heal but to inflame, not to eliminate the problem of racism but to trivialize it. His willingness to throw around charges of racism so wildly, describing anyone who doesn’t share his left-wing politics as racist, is a sign of moral insincerity and intellectual laziness.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden

1 posted on 04/17/2021 5:18:04 PM PDT by ebb tide
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2 posted on 04/17/2021 5:18:42 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

Nothing fits the definition of a demogogue more than Joe Biden.


3 posted on 04/17/2021 5:46:30 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: ebb tide

“By equating a manifestly nonracist election law with segregation, Biden renders all of his comments on racism unserious.”

In terms of Biden being a clown, this actually fairly tame. Calling the Georgia law “Jim Crow” is insane but typical Democrat crap. Calling it “Jim Eagle” is indicative of dementia in a person who was stupid to begin with and who is having his speeches written by idiots.


4 posted on 04/17/2021 5:50:21 PM PDT by cdcdawg (WTF is "Jim Eagle?")
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To: ebb tide

Far more dangerous than Trump’s tweets.


5 posted on 04/17/2021 5:57:28 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: ebb tide

Democrats - They can’t help themselves.


6 posted on 04/17/2021 6:12:03 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: ebb tide

All these things attributed to Biden are misattributed, Joe Biden doesn’t doesn’t have the sense to wipe his own butt.


7 posted on 04/17/2021 6:31:28 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (The China virus doesn't scare me, Venezuelaism does.)
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To: ebb tide

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8 posted on 04/17/2021 6:49:03 PM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: cdcdawg

At least he didn’t call it “John Potato.” At least he realized a crow is a bird like an eagle is.


9 posted on 04/17/2021 7:32:49 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while Biden is in the WH.” (paraphrasing Gideon Tucker back in 1866.)


10 posted on 04/17/2021 8:05:41 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while Biden is in the WH.” (paraphrasing Gideon Tucker back in 1866.)


11 posted on 04/17/2021 8:05:45 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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JOE'S A GUY WHO REALLY KNOWS HOW TO SUCK-UP (Kamala's the exception /s)

Biden sucked up bigtime, virtue-signalling his distaste for GA’s new voting law; claimed it was "worse than Jim Crow,"
“un-American,” “sick,” and “despicable.” Biden then sucked-up to China’s communist dictator, calling Xi “a smart, smart guy.”

China's intent of spread its Communist message. Exploiting racial tensions in enemy countries is a key strategy.>

Beijing has a lot of help.

"Xi, old buddy, ol' pal, together we will make China great, again."

12 posted on 04/17/2021 8:11:48 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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Ronald Reagan once called Joe Biden a “smooth but pure demagogue.”

Biden is not so smooth anymore, but he certainly remains a demagogue. Biden’s preference for demagoguery to debate defines his career. For all his talk of civility and unity, he would much rather call his opponents names than address their arguments.

Biden’s description of Georgia’s new election law as “Jim Crow on steroids” is typical of his demagoguery. It’s a comment as incendiary and heedless as his 2012 assertion that the policies of Mitt Romney were going to put blacks “back in chains.”


13 posted on 04/17/2021 8:15:43 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: ebb tide

Not to eliminate the problem of racism but to trivialize it.

No wonder He and Obama were a team.


14 posted on 04/18/2021 9:30:49 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Liz

All the more galling when one considers that this crumbling wreck of a man belongs to the political party that gave us chains and Jim Crow to begin with.


15 posted on 04/18/2021 3:06:59 PM PDT by jmacusa (The result of conformity is everyone will like you but yourself.)
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