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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Thanks to the left.
This shouldn’t be hard for people to figure out.
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Great post. Unfortunately the American public ain’t what it used to be. We’ve been dumbed down, distracted and deluded into believing the fountain of propaganda the media and government feed us.
Just making a wild guess they didn’t finger the Biden regime and its regulatory state?
Would you look at that. A group of academics/historians who don't even know their own form of government.
Welcome to Dumbed Down America.
Oh, I get it. Democracy is the Dems/deep state's form of government.
You WILL comply.
Yep, democracy is in dire condition.
Welcome to the mid term elections.
I din’t believe them. They are lying. Plus, we are not a democracy.
The border is away in cartel infighting.
There is no real border, no ICE union, and no enforcement.
The US gov’t has effectively failed in its prime duty
*awash
BTTT
Zero info in the article that supports the premise of the title. Click bait.
The Deep State basically kicked down Trump's door to demonstrate that it is now in charge.
The President's plausible deniability is that he is too much of an idiot to understand anything more complicated than an ice cream cone.
Scroll up a bit for my comment.
JEEPERS, Biden got 81 million votes /s.
Why doesn’t he hold rallies w/ a few 100 thousand of them?
How many Dems requested an appearance w/ him?
How many dems has he endorsed?
Rotflol.
We are still one, and what’s important is the return to
sound practice. We can’t just throw up our hands and let
the Communists win. The whole world depends on our being
here so that other nations have to think about what they
are doing before acting out.
We both agree with the core of your observation, but the
emphasis must be on correcting our course, not junking
it all and letting the Communists assist in designing
and implementing a new nation. Oh hell not!
It’s not the country I grew up in and wore it’s uniform.
You mean like hiring 87,000 new IRS agents and asking specifically for some who are eager to carry firearms and use them to shoot and kill American citizens? Authoritarianism like that?
And I love the portrayal of brandon as assembling an erudite group of his intellectual peers and flexing his brain muscle, 'asking questions and testing assumptions' to solve the problems of the world. Like he's interested in anything other than crowing that he's the most powerful man in the world. Or capable of solving any problem more complex than choosing the toppings for his ice cream.
Safe to say VDH was not in attendance.
More likely his former press chief John Meachum, and Bechloss , and the like.
Meachum advised him long ago what he needed to do to become another ‘FDR’, which I assume was administer in big big stuff, not just this sensible moderate crap. Not for Joe. Obie and everybody expected Biden to accomplish diddly squat. He’ll show them !
I'm waiting for the multiple mumbling and stumbling moments
in his upcoming "I Signed A Bill" tour.
LOL.........his upcoming “I Signed A Bill” tour.
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