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Biden quietly met with a group of historians who warned him about threats to democracy and compared the current moment to the pre-Civil War era, report says

Author:     Kelsey Vlamis
Source:     Business Insider
Publication Date:     11 August 2022
 Link: Biden quietly met with a group of historians who warned him about threats to democracy and compared the current moment to the pre-Civil War era, report says
Stephan:   Historians of the American Republic, I know from talking with several of them, are running around with their hair on fire for the same reason I have been so alarmed on SR. The Republican MAGAts are doing everything they can to destroy American democracy, and turn the country into a White supremacy, male dominant, christofascist anocracy, and about a third of Americans are onboard with that. Democracy hangs by a thread, and November's election will tell us whether it will survive.
  • President Joe Biden met with historians at the White House last week, The Washington Post reported.
  • People familiar with the conversation said they warned Biden about the rise of totalitarianism around the world.
  • They also made comparisons to before the Civil War and pro-fascism sentiments around World War II.

President Joe Biden privately met with a group of historians at the White House last week who warned him about ongoing threats to democracy, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

Sources familiar with the August 4 meeting, which lasted nearly two hours, told the outlet the experts described the current moment as among the most dangerous to Democracy in modern history.

The people in the meeting included Princeton University history professor Sean Wilentz, University of Virginia historian Allida Black, journalist Anne Applebaum, and presidential historian Michael Beschloss. Also in the meeting was speechwriters for Biden, including Vinay Reddy and Jon Meacham, and White House senior adviser Anita Dunn.

The small group almost exclusively discussed totalitarianism around the world and threats to American democracy, according to The Post.

The outlet reported the scholars compared the current […]

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