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President Joe Biden participates in a discussion moderated by Stephen Colbert during a campaign fundraising event at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, March 28, 2024.
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Joe Biden has spent the past five years claiming that he was impelled to run for president (for the third time) in 2020 by the spectacle of antisemitic marchers at Charlottesville in 2017, and by Donald Trump’s reaction to them. He’s made it the moral centerpiece of his presidency. And yet, he has now become exactly what he claimed to denounce.
Biden in 2017 argued in an Atlantic op-ed:
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Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review Online and a fellow at National Review Institute.
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Joe Biden has spent the past five years claiming that he was impelled to run for president (for the third time) in 2020 by the spectacle of antisemitic marchers at Charlottesville in 2017, and by Donald Trump’s reaction to them. He’s made it the moral centerpiece of his presidency. And yet, he has now become exactly what he claimed to denounce.
Biden in 2017 argued in an Atlantic op-ed:
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About the Author
Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review Online and a fellow at National Review Institute.
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