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Fascists Hate When You Call Them Fascists

No, Biden should not apologize for calling the MAGA ideology "semi-fascist." If anything, he needs to hammer home that point again and again.

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Parker Molloy
Aug 30, 2022
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“What we’re seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of extreme MAGA philosophy,” President Joe Biden told a group of Democratic supporters last week. “It’s not just Trump, it’s the entire philosophy that underpins the - I’m going to say something, it’s like semi-fascism.”

Upon hearing this, Republicans everywhere donned their finest pearls …

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