From Insurrection to Satire: Biden’s Valley Forge Speech Fails to Cement the Trump-Dictator Narrative › American Greatness
Roger Kimball
I would not be surprised if future historians singled out Joe Biden’s Valley Forge speech as the moment his campaign began its final retreat into senile collapse.
How deeply has Donald Trump burrowed into the psyche of the Democratic establishment? I’d say the takeover is nearly total. For proof, you need only contemplate the alarming pantomime that Joe Biden just acted out at Valley Forge. It lacked the totalitarian, Riefenstahlich trappings of his speech at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall in Sept. 2022. At that time, the President’s puppeteers believed that they could scare voters by turning the acronym “MAGA” into a negative epithet and affixing the extreme-sounding intensifier “ultra” to its front end.
They managed to scare themselves, but hardly anyone else. By the fall of 2022, the wrecking ball that is Joe Biden’s administration had already smashed its way through the American economy, our southern border, and our foreign policy. Suddenly, “Make America Great Again” sounded like a pretty good formula. And if Trump and his supporters were advocating “MAGA with knobs on,” then why not?
That’s what more and more of that most irritating cohort, voters, seemed to think.
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