With the Midterm Elections quickly approaching, Democrats have begun a last-ditch effort to paint Republicans as authoritarian tyrants and threats to democracy.
After Joe Biden said that “American democracy is under attack” by Donald trump and his supporters, a presidential historian named Micael Beschloss took it one step further.
Beschloss went on MSNBC to claim that a GOP win in these elections would cause irreparable harm to this country.
Reacting to Biden's speech, a presidential historian tells MSNBC that we "could be six days away from losing our rule of law" and that we "are on the edge of a brutal authoritarian system" where children will be "arrested and conceivably killed." pic.twitter.com/zJXe7Odrbl
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) November 3, 2022
Six nights from now, we could all be discussing violence all over this country. There are signs that may happen, may God forbid, that losers will be declared winners by fraudulent election officers or secretary of state candidates or Governors or state legislatures.
We could be six days away from losing our rule of law and losing a situation where we have elections that we all can rely on. Those are the foundation stones of a democracy…
In 1860, Lincoln didn’t say that the biggest issue is land grant colleges, although he felt strongly. He said, ‘the country can’t survive half slave or half free.’ 1940, Franklin Roosevelt didn’t say, ‘the biggest thing I’m worried about is farm policy….’ But what he did say was, ‘never before, since Jamestown and Plymouth Rock, has America been in such danger.’
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Joe Biden is saying the same thing tonight. And a historian 50 years from now, if historians are allowed to write in this country, and if there are still free publishing houses and a free press, which I’m not certain of… will say, ‘what was at stake tonight and this week what the fact, whether we will be a democracy in the future, whether our children will be arrested and conceivably killed.
We’re on the edge of a brutal authoritarian system, and it could be a week away.
There you have it! According to Beschloss, the Republican party is a top-three threat that America has ever faced.
The Civil War. World War 2. And the Midterm Elections of 2022.
What an asinine take. In a country that has felt a worsening political divide in recent years, this interview is reckless at best.
This follows the long line of leftists in recent days who have said that a GOP victory in these elections could only be due to fraud and that it will send America into an unrecoverable spiral toward tyranny.
The Democrats have abandoned their platforms built upon free abortion and taxing the rich, and have pivoted to demonizing their political opponents.
Many Twitter users see clearly through this ruse.
This is hilarious. Democrats knowing they are going to lose, are already laying the groundwork for calling the midterms stolen and illegitimate. The same thing they are accusing republicans of doing.
It’s a good thing we are finally putting to rest the divisive hate speech and violence-filled rhetoric. Oh wait.
Fear mongering at its finest.
The left, who decried any Republicans who questioned the 2020 presidential election to be anti-American, will undoubtedly be prepared to do the same if 2022 does not end their way.
By: Goose
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