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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I can wrack my brain for hours, and I couldn’t imagine a scenario where Donald Trump is President of the United States and would waste even five seconds of his life in a stupid meeting with a bunch of losers like “presidential historians.”
Then those “historians” have no better knowledge of history than the average democrat.
We’re not a democracy. We’re a Constitutional Republic.
You got that right!
You got that right!
Well, a huge part of the problem is that they view anyone who opposes leftism as a fascist whose opinions should be suppressed.
I agree. The Russia Hoax was the single most corrosive event to our democracy.
The historians invited seem to have represented a narrow range of left-wing historians. Sean Wilentz was a "red diaper baby" if I'm not mistaken. Michael Beschloss was involved in that recent conversation with the former head of the CIA salivating about the possibility of Donald Trump being sent to the electric chair. Allida Black is an expert on Eleanor Roosevelt and publisher of Eleanor Roosevelt's papers.
The latest poll of US Presidents by academic historians put Trump at #41 (tied with Franklin Pierce and with only Andrew Johnson and James Buchanan ranked lower)--which tells you more about the historians polled than it does about President Trump. But of course you would not expect Biden to invite any historians not known to be Trump-haters.
Victor Davis Hanson is not a specialist on American history so it would not be surprising that he would not be invited. He is an ancient historian by training.
Sounds like an echo chamber or a party Congress.
More bait.
We need power back to the states.
“Historians privately warn Biden that America’s democracy is teetering”
“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”
By Michael Scherer, Ashley Parker and Tyler Pager / August 10, 2022
If you are able, and this link seems to jump past paywalls, please read the comments by WaPo readers.
They sincerely believe that Trump is the 2nd coming of Adolf Hitler, that the heroic DOJ/FBI attempts to stop him last time did not yet succeed, and Nazi-Fascist Trumpist Republicans are just ITCHING to go to violent terrorism to get their man back into the White House.
The Glorious Valiant Patriotic FBI Super Agents who raided Mar A Lago are literally the greatest American Super Heroes since I don’t know when.
It’s mind blowing to see how the Woke Left sees Constitutional conservatives.
Read their comments to fully understand that the USA we grew up in is DEAD, blown up, decapitated, and way past dead and rigor mortised to rotten and maggot infested.
My advice: MOVE TO A CONSERVATIVE STATE ASAP, even if you have to “bug out” in an improvised RV. Don’t be like the Jews who stayed behind in Hitler’s Germany, thinking, “It Can’t Get Worse Than This!” OH YES, it CAN.
Obidens’ couldn’t
Care Less about the
Destruction!!!
It’s the Plan,Sam.
It’s not a democracy it’s a republic.
Lemme guess.
Doug Kennedy and Michael Beschloss are in the FRONT ROW!
The UNITED STATES is a REPUBLIC.
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.
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the latter, because this WaPo article is a typical “appeal to authority” article. It’s not Biden warning of those evil Republicans and that Fascist Trump putting “our democracy” (i.e. Dem control) at risk, it’s these experts in history saying it. Sort of like those security experts who said the Hunter Biden laptop was Russia disinformation.
You overestimate the desire and the innate cognitive ability of people like my SIL who watches Nicolle WallAss and supposedly retains the ability to think critically.
I would be interested in knowing how many of these so-called historians are democrat vs conservative republicans? If I were a betting man ....
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