Biden Threatens Democracy More Than Trump

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. instructed Monday that President Joe Biden is an even bigger risk to American democracy than former President Donald Trump. Now, whether or not you’re a supporter of Biden or not, any affordable individual should be asking themselves how the president who has not led a propaganda marketing campaign to delegitimize a reliable election in an effort to stay in energy or instigated an rebel to additional that very same agenda is extra of a risk to democracy than the president who did do these issues—and that will be an awesome query to ask.

“I could make the argument that President Biden is the a lot worse risk to democracy, and the rationale for that’s President Biden is the primary candidate in historical past – the primary president in historical past that has used the federal businesses to censor political speech, so to censor his opponent,” RFK stated throughout an look on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront.

Nicely, OK, that is smart. I imply, clearly, if Biden is having federal brokers take his political opponents out into the road and publicly flog them or worse only for saying issues he doesn’t like then that’s not solely a risk to democracy, it’s an all-out risk of fascism. How can any individual name themselves the chief of the free world and have interaction in such violent and oppressive censorship of Americans?

Nah, I’m simply messing with y’all—RFK thinks Biden is an even bigger risk to democracy as a result of he obtained banned from social media platforms.

From CNN:

Kennedy pointed to his elimination from social media platforms, which he attributes to strain from the Biden administration, as proof of the president’s efforts to censor political speech.

Kennedy’s Instagram account was suspended in 2021 “for repeatedly sharing debunked claims concerning the coronavirus or vaccines” however was reinstated final yr shortly after he introduced his presidential marketing campaign. Meta, Instagram’s guardian firm, cited his White Home bid as the rationale for restoring Kennedy’s account in an announcement.

In December, the Supreme Court docket blocked Kennedy from becoming a member of a problem to a case introduced by the Missouri and Louisiana’s attorneys basic in regards to the Biden administration’s communications with social media firms about posts the federal government views as disinformation. Kennedy presently has an identical case pending in a decrease court docket.

So, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. obtained barred from IG for spreading harmful medical misinformation throughout a lethal international pandemic, and due to that, he seems to imagine a presidential administration can unilaterally ban folks from privately owned social media platforms. In actuality, simply final month, the Supreme Court docket set new requirements for when authorities workers are allowed to take action a lot as delete feedback or block social media customers from official government-owned social media accounts.

However even when Biden may personally block an individual from utilizing all social media platforms, which he can’t, would that be an even bigger risk to democracy than, say, an precise blatant try to upend democracy? Kennedy doesn’t seem to make certain.

“I feel that could be a risk to democracy, (Trump) overthrowing — attempting to overthrow the election clearly is a risk to democracy,” Kennedy stated. “However the query was, who’s a worse risk to democracy? And what I’d say is … I’m not going to reply that query. However I can argue that President Biden is as a result of the First Modification, Erin, is a very powerful.” (Seems like he did reply the query, however no matter.)

See, the issue right here is people like RFK are nonetheless not connecting with the sheer insidiousness of what Trump tried to drag off on the finish of his presidency. I wrote about this earlier than:

Give it some thought: Within the twenty first century, a sitting president of the USA responded to shedding his bid for reelection by throwing an prolonged and really public mood tantrum and embarking on probably essentially the most clear propaganda marketing campaign in trendy politics.

The concept the election had been rigged — that voting machines had been programmed to abracadabra Trump votes into Biden votes; that lifeless folks have been being registered to vote blue in lots the scale of zombie herds from “The Strolling Useless” — was allowed to persevere even though it had no validity.

Dozens of judges throughout decrease courts, appellate courts and the Supreme Court docket joined the former head of election cybersecurity, Trump’s personal legal professional basic and the Division of Justice in saying clearly and unmistakably that there was no proof of a rigged election.

Trump put ahead not only a lie, however a silly and apparent lie, a foolish lie that ought to have been dismissed as simply as if a toddler have been attempting to persuade his mom that his father stated he may have an additional cookie. (The truth is, that serves as a reasonably shut analogy for what Trump really tried to do.)

And but, at the very least 253 key political leaders throughout red-state America believed or pretended to imagine the lie, and 147 Republican legislators voted to overturn a authorized election primarily based on the lie. White conservatives rioted on the U.S. Capitol over that lie.

Now, THAT is a real and demonstrable risk to democracy. But, RFK is defending the individuals who nonetheless perpetuate the lie behind all of it.

“Individuals who say that the election is stolen…we shouldn’t make pariahs of these folks. We shouldn’t demonize them. We shouldn’t vilify them. What we must be doing is saying, let’s all get collectively, Republicans and Democrats, and repair the election system,” he stated.

However the place is the proof that the “election system” must be fastened? Just about each examine has proven that voter fraud in America is extraordinarily uncommon. Hell, whereas Trump was nonetheless president, he launched a voting integrity fee, which he swiftly disbanded after they failed to seek out any proof of widespread voter fraud, which didn’t cease him from spreading the baseless propaganda anyway.

Getting banned from social media platforms (particularly when it’s solely a short lived ban) doesn’t forestall one from collaborating within the democratic course of, an try by a sitting president to cancel democracy when he loses does. There’s actually no believable argument available right here, and RFK’s self-serving nonsense solely perpetuates the normalization of lending credence to apparent delusion whereas denying provable fact.