THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!

At Thursday’s virtual Summit for Democracy, President Biden repeated warnings from the International Institute of Democracy and Electoral Assistance that the United States is among the growing number of nations – more than half of all democracies – edging closer to the abyss that is authoritarianism.

In a Wednesday column for The Washington Post, Greg Sargent is spot on, gives Biden a primer:

If Biden tells the truth to the world, it might sound like this: Our homegrown threat to democracy comes primarily from a dangerously radicalized right wing and from the cynical, antidemocratic accommodation of it by only one of our major political parties, the GOP.

Biden would say his own party has proved utterly unable—or even unwilling—to take the actions necessary to safeguard against that threat. And he would admit the problems are also structural: That safeguarding is frustrated by anti-majoritarian features of the system itself, and his own party is failing to correct those as well.

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President Biden, stop trying that old buddy-buddy-buddy thing with your cronies from the days in the Senate. That’s not working. You know it. We know it. Damn, the whole world knows it.

You know what you must do for the nation – not for your compromise wishes or your legacy – so just do it. And stop trying to get Mitch McConnell to like you. He doesn’t. Never has. Never will!

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