In his recent speech in Philadelphia Biden certainly was correct that what is happening in the U.S. today is not normal. I agree with him that the MAGA movement is a threat to democracy. People who reject election results because they lost have no clue about how a democratic system is supposed to work.
Nonetheless, I wish Biden had not said it. Immediately Republicans, including “moderates,” jumped on the speech as “divisive” and a critique of all party members, even though Biden took pains to differentiate normal Republicans from MAGA Republicans.
The problem is that Biden accomplished almost nothing with the speech. No minds were changed. MAGA Republicans will follow Trump no matter what he does. Moderate Republicans will retain their Republican identity and even vote for MAGA candidates because of a misguided sense of party loyalty.
What Biden needs to do is to remind Democrats to remain vigilant, to defend fair and free elections, and to vote.
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