Biden s claim that the Capitol Riot was the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War is ahistorical garbage.
Sure enough, the President delivered on this. Opening his address, Biden stated, I took the oath of office lifted my hand off our family Bible and inherited a nation in crisis. The worst pandemic in a century. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.
Yes, the January 6th siege on the U.S. Capitol building, often alluded to as an insurrection, was an embarrassing day for our country. But to suggest that it was the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War is disingenuous at best. At worst, it s a malicious attempt to whitewash the history of attacks carried out both by and on the government that have had much more catastrophic results.
Rubio had previously argued, in an April 25 New York Post op-ed, that it was time for a “rebuilding and rebalancing” of the relationship between corporations and the national interest.
The comments underline how Republicans, and conservatives generally, are grappling with unusual dynamics eddying back and forth between the white working-class element of their support and wealthy, corporate America.
For a start, the dominant figure in the GOP is still a billionaire former president who has portrayed himself as a champion of working Americans since he launched his first campaign from his golden Manhattan skyscraper.
Meanwhile, much of the electorate is deeply distrustful of elites across the board. The pandemic s financial effects, as well as longer-term problems of economic insecurity and wage stagnation, afflict GOP voters as much as their Democratic counterparts. And corporations increasingly weigh in on fractious social issues as well.
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Let me see if I have this straight. The Republican Party is rebranding itself as the nation’s leading supporter of family and child education.
Yet it’s launched an all-out attack on President Biden’s proposals to help families pay for child care and provide free preschool and college, painting them as intrusive “social engineering.”
What’s wrong with this picture?
Three-year-old pre-K, they’re going to mandate this. Two years of college, whether you like it or not.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) distorts Biden’s American Families Plan
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The short answer is that the GOP has chosen to attack Biden’s $1.8-trillion American Families Plan not on the merits that is, as an expansion and shoring up of the social safety net for American households but by painting it as an effort to strangle Americans’ “choices.”
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