In a contest between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, there’s no comparison. Anyone in the world who cares about freedom wants to pull for the American president. The problem is Biden gives us so litt…
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Biden was responding to a question about Putin’s attempt at drawing a moral equivalence between his own persecution of political opponents and the Biden administration’s handling of the Capitol rioters: “People rioted and went into the Congress in the US with political demands and many people were declared as criminals and they are threatened with imprisonment for 20 to 25 years,” Putin said.
Biden dismissed the comparison as “ridiculous,” but the fact he had to embellish his answer with a lie puts him on shaky ground. If the Capitol riot was the “worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War,” as Biden asserts, why exaggerate?
A united, confident America should easily be able to counter Putin’s whataboutism. How dare Russia criticize America’s human rights record when
Putin’s political opponents are regularly poisoned and whacked and locked up?
But since coming to office, Biden has eroded America’s moral high ground with his crackdown on the mythical bogeyman of “white supremacy,” using Jan. 6 as the pretext to go after his political opponents.
He has used the FBI and DOJ with their “sedition” task forces and threats of “shock and awe” to demonize 75 million Trump supporters and lock up dozens in solitary confinement without trial.
His party has undermined America’s moral authority by weaponizing the false narrative of “systemic racism” and disparaging this country and its founding. Did they expect the rest of the world wouldn’t notice, or our enemies would not capitalize on the self-flagellation?
