{"id":506098,"date":"2022-11-03T05:03:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T02:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/joe-bidens-riot-act-falls-flat\/"},"modified":"2022-11-03T05:03:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T02:03:49","slug":"joe-bidens-riot-act-falls-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-bidens-riot-act-falls-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"#Joe Biden\u2019s riot act falls flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23268c71de3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23268c71de3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-bidens-riot-act-falls-flat\/#%E2%80%9CJoe_Bidens_riot_act_falls_flat%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Joe Biden\u2019s riot act falls flat&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CJoe_Bidens_riot_act_falls_flat%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Joe Biden\u2019s riot act falls flat&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/john-podhoretz.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"John Podhoretz\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/john-podhoretz.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/john-podhoretz.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Joe Biden wanted to give a stirring speech to rouse Americans to angry purpose about the threats to democracy represented by \u201celection deniers\u201d running for office across the country. He was, according to CNN\u2019s reporting, spurred to action by the horrible attack last week on the husband of the speaker of the House, which Biden believes is a direct result of Donald Trump\u2019s effect on the United States over the past seven years.<\/p>\n<p>So \u2026 that\u2019s what he wanted. But, as the great philosopher Mick Jagger once said, you can\u2019t always get what you want.<\/p>\n<p>The address he delivered Wednesday night wasn\u2019t a forceful speech. It was a forceless speech. Biden didn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eal passionately to the better angels of our nature because there was no energy behind his words.<\/p>\n<p>He seemed exhausted, spent \u2014 so much so that even in the course of making an argument I find repellent, he didn\u2019t even get me mad.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of being roused to rage by his cagey effort to turn the horrifying violent act of a paranoid schizophrenic into an implicit indictment of the very idea of voting Republican, I felt almost paternal toward Biden, who is 18 years older than I am. It was like he was one of my kids and he was showing signs of having stayed up too late and it was past time for him to go beddie-bye.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/1244441192-e1667438956891.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"President Biden\" class=\"wp-image-24506993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/1244441192-e1667438956891.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/1244441192-e1667438956891.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/1244441192-e1667438956891.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Biden spoke in Washington, DC, about preserving and protecting democracy. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Michael A. McCoy\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And there was much in the speech I found inarguable. Was the Jan. 6 attack horrendous? Yes. Are people who deny the results of the 2020 election wrong? Very wrong. Has Donald Trump \u201cput the loyalty to himself above loyalty to the Constitution,\u201d as Biden put it? Yes, and he deserves condemnation for it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Capitol-Riot-Officer-Indicted.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Rioters in support of former President Donald Trump storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021. \" class=\"wp-image-24506989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Capitol-Riot-Officer-Indicted.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Capitol-Riot-Officer-Indicted.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Capitol-Riot-Officer-Indicted.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/Capitol-Riot-Officer-Indicted.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Rioters in support of former President Donald Trump storm the Capitol on January 6, 2021. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">John Minchillo\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But is election denial itself a paramount threat to the very future of this country, as this speech would have you believe? Please.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>If it were, then every person who stood by smiling and nodding as Stacey Abrams claimed the governorship of Georgia had been stolen from her \u2014 hundreds of elected Democratic officials across this country among them \u2014 would be every bit as guilty of a crime against our country\u2019s foundation as the people who thought and think the same of Donald Trump\u2019s loss in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>They aren\u2019t guilty of any substantive offense except being sore losers on someone else\u2019s behalf. That stinks, and we\u2019re a less civil polity because of it. But while election denial did play a role in inspiring the Jan. 6 attack, the shocking increase in political violence in the United States long preceded it.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump encouraged people at rallies in 2016 to beat up protesters. That was evil. But it had nothing to do with election denial. Evil was also at work when Bernie-bro James Hodgkinson shot up the congressional baseball <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> in 2017, but not election denial.<\/p>\n<p>Treating Nancy Pelosi as the personification of bad statist policy has been a feature of American politics since 2010. Doing so is not evil. It\u2019s hardball negative politics, and it\u2019s not all that special either \u2014 Democrats hated Newt Gingrich when he was speaker every bit as much in their time. And none of it was election denial.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/AP22306857493217.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"President Joe Biden speaks about threats to democracy ahead of next week's midterm elections, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022\" class=\"wp-image-24507209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/AP22306857493217.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/AP22306857493217.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/AP22306857493217.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/AP22306857493217.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Biden slammed \u201celection deniers\u201d during his Nov. 2 speech.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our politics is ugly, and that ugliness is probably going to get worse. But Biden\u2019s assertions that we should blame the ugliness on a political opposition that is going to destroy America were belied by Biden\u2019s own exhausted delivery of his lame attempt at a Ciceronian jeremiad.<\/p>\n<p>More important, not a word he said will spare his party from an electoral reckoning next week.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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