President Biden on Friday delivered a ferocious condemnation of Donald J. Trump, his likely 2024 opponent, warning in searing language that the former president had directed an insurrection and would aim to undo the nation’s bedrock democracy if he returned to power.

On the eve of the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by Mr. Trump’s supporters, Mr. Biden framed the coming election as a choice between a candidate devoted to upholding America’s centuries-old ideals and a chaos agent willing to discard them for his personal benefit.

“There’s no confusion about who Trump is or what he intends to do,” Mr. Biden warned in a speech at a community college not far from Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, where George Washington commanded troops during the Revolutionary War. Exhorting supporters to prepare to vote this fall, he said: “We all know who Donald Trump is. The question is: Who are we?”

In an intensely personal address that at one point nearly led Mr. Biden to curse Mr. Trump by name, the president compared his rival to foreign autocrats who rule by fiat and lies. He said Mr. Trump had failed the basic test of American leaders, to trust the people to choose their elected officials and abide by their decisions.

“We must be clear,” Mr. Biden said. “Democracy is on the ballot. Your freedom is on the ballot.”

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  • SoleInvictus@lemmy.world
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    Classic Trump supporter here, posting sources that contradict their point as supporting their point because, out of eight statements, one weakly suggested peace while the other seven weakly suggested insurrection.

    This is how con men win over the critical thinking challenged crowd.

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      Right, because critical thinking equals defending the majority opinion.

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        Critical thinking means reading an article with one point that agrees with your stance and seven points that contradict it and realizing it doesn’t actually support your argument.

        Critical thinking means you question what you read, hear, think, write, and say. If you were capable of critical thought, you’d have read your previous comment and realized it doesn’t actually address my comment at all. It just makes an unrelated point. But you’re not capable of even primary school level feats of cognition yet you still vote, and people like you are why American democracy is circling the drain. You just. Don’t. Think.

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        Bro. You’re in the minority here, and you’ve made bad takes on every subthread. I don’t have the energy to argue with you. You’re on a predominantly leftist social media platform. No one here agrees with you.

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          Yes, please do tell me how you really feel about minorities.