Joe Biden is sure of one thing: MAGA Republicans are the most serious threat facing the United States of America today. Biden has taken to repeating “MAGA Republicans” because it is a poll-tested phrase keyed to Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan. Such people represent, as he argued in a prime-time presidential address last week, “an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.” The “Republican Party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. And that is a threat to this country.” Ahead of that speech, he said that “an extreme MAGA philosophy” was “not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the — I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism.” In May, he claimed that “this MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history, in recent American history.”
Biden’s press secretary, attempting to clarify and defend his remarks in late August, said, “You look at the definition of fascism and you think about what they’re doing in attacking our democracy, what they’re doing in taking away our freedoms, taking away our rights, our voting rights. That is what that is.” She added, on the eve of the Philadelphia speech: “The way that [Biden] sees it, is the MAGA Republicans are the most energized part of the Republican Party. This is an extreme threat to our democracy, to our freedom, to our rights.”
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