It looked like President Joe Biden was beginning to turn things back around, but we guess he’s decided as Charlie Christ did that it’s best to light a fire under the Republican base heading into the midterms. Notice how Biden couches everything: what used to be Ultra MAGA is now “extreme MAGA philosophy,” and it’s underpinned by not fascism exactly, but “like semi-fascism.”
Biden says Trump and MAGA-ism is “semi-fascism”
“It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the – I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism.”
Via pooler @AndrewRestuccia pic.twitter.com/qJYHK5rcHL— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) August 25, 2022
The funny part is that calling MAGA semi-fascism is actually a moderate Democratic position. https://t.co/B9Bgl72k04
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) August 25, 2022
It’s true.
Yes, nothing says you are against semi-fascism quite like unilaterally erasing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt just months after saying you couldn't under the Constitution https://t.co/UrxTkdC31E
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 25, 2022
"Here’s my promise to you: If I’m elected president, I will always choose to unite rather than divide."
– Presidential Candidate Joe Biden, August 16, 2020 https://t.co/oYca1VSvPO
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) August 25, 2022
This is not a good look from Biden. To say that MAGA-ism is semi-fascism is effectively to say that tens of millions of Americans are semi-fascists. Also, what exactly is "semi-fascism"? It's not even a thing. https://t.co/JVY9a3Qcty
— Shadi Hamid (@shadihamid) August 25, 2022
Your government wants to call their political enemies "fascists." They're just too chicken to call them "full-fascists." https://t.co/IHoE0Vh3lw
— Aldous Huxley's Ghost™ (@AF632) August 25, 2022
Deep thoughts from the man who said he wanted to unify the country. https://t.co/fu6WNHzqw0
— Victor Joecks (@VictorJoecks) August 25, 2022
I read this as "semi-deplorable" https://t.co/VKM1px6Ybg
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) August 25, 2022
It wasn't enough for Hillary Clinton to call half the country a "basket of deplorables." Now half the country are "semi-fascists" according to our great, unifying president Joe Biden. https://t.co/TYY0UBGVGE
— Bully Eric (@HailStateEric) August 25, 2022
Biden truly hates half of the country. https://t.co/qcuoZMK4Sn
— Señia (@SeniaVJ) August 25, 2022
Biden just took a shot at 70 million voters. https://t.co/x1827tWopl
— Dominic DiMatteo (@DominicDimatte1) August 25, 2022
I hope you guys never have to discover the real meaning of that word but you're absolutely 100% going to https://t.co/D3rXJpCJTr
— Cacodad (@SurrealEli) August 25, 2022
A lot of Democrats are relieved that Biden is finally taking some shots at Republicans instead of cozying up to them as he has as a moderate. Funny how that focus group-tested “Ultra MAGA” never really caught on.
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 24, 2022