President Joe Biden will give a speech in Philadelphia in prime time on Thursday about “the continuing battle for the soul of the nation” in front of Independence Hall, the White House reported.
“He will talk about the progress we have made as a nation to protect our democracy, but how our rights and freedoms are still under attack,” the White House declared. “And it will make clear who is fighting for those rights, fighting for those freedoms, and fighting for our democracy.”
The speech will be broadcast after a week in which the president returned to the electoral campaign with a relentless speech in which he rebuked Republicans who have stuck to former President Donald Trump’s creed, calling it “semi-fascism.”
At last week’s conference, Biden showed how his attacks on Trump and Republicans who have remained loyal to the former executive have become more pointed as the November midterm elections approach.
“What we are seeing now is the beginning or the death sentence of an extreme MAGA philosophy,” the White House leader told a group of Democratic donors at a private home in Maryland.
“It’s not just Trump,” he continued, “it’s the whole philosophy that supports the… I’ll say something: it’s like semi-fascism.”
Labeling Trump’s views as a kind of proto-fascism marked an escalation of the Democratic president’s rebukes of his predecessor and laid the groundwork for a political message in the middle of his term designed to make his opponents known as too extreme for most voters.
Biden said throughout his presidential campaign of 2020 that he was running to restore the “soul of the nation” and both he and his administration they have returned to that statement repeatedly in their first years in office.
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