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Even on the day that President Joe Biden delivered his most jarring warning yet that democracy is in severe danger, Donald Trump teased how he might use a new White House term to further erode that core American birthright.
At Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and their fellow founders set the nation on a democratic path, Biden warned their legacy of government for the people by the people was in peril in one of the most stark prime-time speeches ever given by a president.
He warned that Trump and his fellow ideologues represent a dark, dangerous force bent on using lies and violence to crush the will of the majority.
"Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic," Biden said in another energetic and passionate speech that belied the low-wattage tone of much of his term so far.
It was a commentary on this era's fractured political times that the leader of the world's most powerful democracy would feel compelled to give such a speech at all. Given events over the last few years, his comments cannot be considered alarmist. And Biden left no doubt that he sees the purpose of his presidency as being to once again defeat Trump and his "Make America Great Again" movement, which he warned was already poisoning the 2022 midterm elections and the 2024 White House race.
"They look at the mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6 brutally attacking law enforcement, not as insurrectionists who placed a dagger at the throat of our democracy, but they look at it (them) as patriots," Biden said.
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