Was Biden right about about the threat to our democracy by MAGA Republicans? I had a letter to the editor in the Kansas City Star in the Kansas City Star yesterday with a simple test.
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President Biden’s September 2nd speech at Independence Hall has clearly angered many whom Biden labelled as MAGA Republicans. He noted: “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.”
A typical MAGA response came from Missouri’s Senator Josh Hawley: “Joe Biden’s hate-filled and menacing rhetoric tonight was disgraceful. His behavior is increasingly erratic. And his threats against half the country – his fellow citizens – are dangerous.”
We can all determine whether the democratic foundations of our country are in trouble. I wish Hawley, and all those who agree with him, to answer two questions:
1) Was the 2020 election free and fair?
2) Were the events of January 6th to stop the certification of the 2020 election an insurrection or “legitimate political discourse” (the language in a Republican National Committee resolution)?
If a large number of our fellow citizens don’t believe the 2020 election was free and fair, and if they further believe January 6th was “legitimate political discourse,” it is not hate-filled and disgraceful to warn that the democratic foundations of our country are in very serious danger of being destroyed.