By Christopher Manion, The Stream, September 5, 2022
Christopher Manion earned a Ph.D. in government from Notre Dame. For many years he was the staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, chaired by the late Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C.
Last Thursday night, Joe Biden gave a speech that, in word and image, exuded the temper of a tyrant bent on exterminating his critics.
In this case, that means about a hundred million of his countrymen.
In the days since, serious sorts tried their best to make sense of it. After all, millions of Americans were offended and indignant at being so flagrantly demonized. Biden’s outbursts were so out of bounds that analysis on the political level faltered — he was simply incomprehensible. …
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