Who s really threatening American democracy? – spiked
There were many striking things about that weird Joe Biden speech the other night. First and foremost, it was a spectacular failure of optics, something the political class from which Biden hails is supposedly so brilliant at. For some reason, Biden and his team decided he should address the American people in front of an Independence Hall in Philadelphia birthplace of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution illuminated in blood-red lighting: a peculiarly Nuremberg-esque aesthetic given his subject as we ll come on to was the supposedly proto-fascistic threat posed by Trumpist right-wingers. But the speech was also a spectacular display of brassneck a tirade against authoritarianism that only underlined the respectable authoritarianism that Biden himself has helped usher in.
I only watched snippets of the speech and it indeed seemed weird. I’m going to ignore it in the hope it goes away. So far, however, no luck.