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Biden seeks to separate 'mainstream' Republicans from 'Trumpies' in Wisconsin speech
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/05/biden-mainstream-republicans-trump-wisconsin-00054829
The extreme MAGA Republicans have chosen to go backwards. Together we can and must choose a different path forward," President Joe Biden said at a Labor Day event.
By Olivia Olander 09/05/2022 03:02 PM EDT
President Joe Biden continued to add texture Monday to a recent string of criticisms against MAGA Republicans, the right-most wing of the party that hes sought to distinguish from the more moderate, mainstream GOP.
I want to be very clear up front: Not every Republican is a MAGA Republican, Biden said at a Labor Day event in Wisconsin. Not every Republican embraces that extreme ideology. I know because Ive been able to work with mainstream Republicans in my whole career.
However, he continued: The extreme MAGA Republicans in Congress have chosen to go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate and division. But together we can and we must choose a different path forward.
The comments came after a series of appearances in recent days, in which the president has campaigned forcefully against the most extreme segments of the GOP. In the most pointed remark, he called former President Donald Trumps philosophy semi-fascism at an event for Democratic donors late last month........................
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President Joe Biden speaks during an event at Henry Maier Festival Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Sept. 5, 2022. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo

Lovie777
(17,242 posts)Abortion, student loans, et al.
Also let the public know what the GQP is going to do with SSI, Medicare and Medicaid. Also let it be known that the GQP will force seniors to work until they die.
Walleye
(38,613 posts)Who are going to work tirelessly to pass legislation that will improve the lives of millions of Americans. Or do you want Republicans who are going to work with fanatic energy in the cause of vengeance and vindication for their supreme leader? Do they really want Kevin McCarthy to represent them as speaker of the house?
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)They dug this whole for themselves, Let them keep digging until oblivion.
There aren't 2 Republican parties there's just one, and they walk in lockstep with Donald Trump.
Even if he manages to siphon off a few Non trump die hard's the fact of the matter is they've maintained loyalty to this man since 2015. Let them go down with him
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)...every week when the collection basket is passed. But then they feel they get to say "but I disagree" and think that it absolves them.
NH Ethylene
(31,046 posts)It's better for the country. And it is MUCH better for Dems in the midterms if Republican voters reject extremist candidates that have been put forth in favor of moderate Democrats.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)Donald Trump didn't exist when the tea turds created created themselves
Donald Trump didn't exist when Jerry falwell created the moral majority and carved out the one issue voter over abortion back in the eighties
The way the Republican party is today is the way they evolved to be or devolved to be as it were
They are on the path they chose for themselves common we should just let them die because that's where they're headed.
They rejected the vaccine they die at a rate of 90%
They actively fight to take away our free will and that's not Donald Trump, that is just the Republican party. The supreme port those 6 justices it's justices they were put there by a Republican party that wanted to control us, sure they used Donald Trump to get those justices to the Supreme Court but let's be honest Mitch mcconnell created that Supreme Court not Donald Trump not Donald Trump. And Mitch mcconnell is a GOP Standard that Joe Biden thinks we should go back to.
I say allow Donald Trump to completely destroy their Republican party we do not need a 2 party system if one of the parties only wants to control us, and destroy democracy.
The Republican party chose to render themselves useless in a 2022 society
Why hang on to that garbage?
Just because we've been told we need a 2 party system. If there are not 2 functioning parties what's the point?.
And to be honest having a choice between 2 parties should be decided at the ballad Box. 80 million of us decided we don't want the Republican party anymore.
We are the majority of this country, the minority party the republicans are dying off because they decided not to get vaccinated.
And their ideas are archaic.
Old ideas are best left in the past, the Republican party is not a party of our future. And therefore the democrats should stop trying to save it.
NH Ethylene
(31,046 posts)We've been saying it is destroying itself for years. But until a couple of months ago, they were favored to take back the House! After everything that has happened! And sentiment could easily shift again.
If we are to survive as a democracy, our choice should not be between a good candidate and a monster, because sometimes that monster will win.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)It would be nice if the Republican party was actually worth choosing At the ballot Box.
It would be nice to think wow they are 2 great candidates this is tough
G2theD
(602 posts)MAGA Republicans are not republicans, they are Christofascists. They are deep in a cult of personality and they live in a separate reality from people not in the cult.
Its actually horrifying how deep down the babbitt hole they are.
They only understand raw power just like their savior, the Kumquat Kolored Krook (KKK).
The only thing we can do short of individually having them deprogrammed is take their political power away.
That is why we need a blue tsunami in every state in the union.
If we can keep the house and expand the senate enough to nullify Manchin snd Sinema, and if we can get the Mussolini Messiah in prison for life (5-10 years should do it) the only choice they have left is civil war.
Let them fight the police and national guard and invoke the insurrection act if necessary.
LakeArenal
(29,941 posts)Biden is just pointing out the chasm. Be on one side or the other. Theres no middle. MAGAts drew that line themselves.
StrkSrviver
(85 posts)TFG keep calling normal people Republicans RINOS and let his big mouth do the work. All he has to do is piss 2 out of 100 of them off and we hold the House.
LakeArenal
(29,941 posts)Old and young.
StrkSrviver
(85 posts)Both of them
childfreebychoice
(476 posts)The Goldwater, dirksen, javits, brooks type rethugs. They are dead, literally and figuratively. This the party of t*, these ppl want us blacks to the back of bus, gays in jail or mental hospitals, women with no vote, and chained to stoves, as breeders. Grave error to pretend otherwise
maxsolomon
(36,014 posts)I get why Biden's framing it this way, but 74 million Repukes voted for an Authoritarian Sociopath 2 years ago because "Socialist" Democrats are trying to destroy America and literally eat babies.
Detached from reality is the GQP Mainstream.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)The entire Republican party is hot garbage trash.
Mitch mc Connell would be considered a mainstream Republican. The Supreme Court we currently have was created created and carved out by Mitch mcconnell
Not sure why mainstream Republican would be preferable to anything else they call Republican
KS Toronado
(20,963 posts)every chance you get Biden, will help in the midterms. All Democrats running for election should
follow Joe's lead. The results might surprise us.