The F-Word Biden’s Play for the Courts
Biden’s fascist COVID order is not a serious effort to stem the tide of the pandemic.
By Ken Masugi
September 16, 2021
In his remarks justifying his vaccine mandate, Joe Biden gave the most fascistic speech ever delivered by a president of the United States. It demanded unconstitutional and illegal powers and replaced the rule of law with partisanship, timed solely to distract attention from his Afghanistan fiasco.
In overthrowing the notion of law as the embodiment of objective reason, he has made a mockery of the American concept of the rule of law. He has replaced the constitution and law with the willfulness of a king, and a raging one at that. In that regard, I wish his critics would cease calling him a dotard, as that completely distorts the seriousness of the moment. I do not make this charge of fascism lightly, but since no one else deigns to do it, here it is.
Before going into detail, let me compare Biden’s remarks with a worthy competitor for most fascist speech: Franklin Roosevelt’s first inaugural (March 4, 1933). In it he compared the powers he needed to deal with the crisis of the Depression with those of a general in time of war. By Roosevelt’s reckoning, the American people are his privates to order about. (Recall these were the times during which we saw the rise of tyrants in Europe and Asia.) FDR compared himself with God’s anointed and Jesus Christ (having driven “the money-changers . . . from their high seats in the temple of our civilization”).
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