POTUS Bully Pulpit

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US President Joe Biden did his job and used the Bully Pulpit to denounce Trump MAGA Republicans who attack Democracy.

bully pulpit is a conspicuous position that provides an opportunity to speak out and be listened to. This term was coined by United States President Theodore Roosevelt, who referred to his office as the "bully pulpit", by which he meant a terrific platform from which to advocate an agenda.

Biden targets 'extremist' Trump allies as a democratic threat in the fraught political moment  https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-confronts-extremism-perilous-mom…

Biden sounds a newly strong alarm: Trumpism menaces democracy

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-donald-trump-pr…

Four takeaways from Biden’s speech in Philadelphia

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/us/politics/biden-speech-takeaways.h…

"We have to defend it." Biden addressed the threats to American democracy. https://bit.ly/3AEvYJD

He also called out the cowardly #MAGA Republicans who voted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.  

https://nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/07/us/elections/electoral-college-biden-objectors.html

President Biden: “America must choose to move forward or to move backward. To build a future or obsess about the past. To be a nation of hope and unity and optimism, or a nation of fear, division and of darkness.”  https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/politics/joe-biden-democracy-speech/inde…

President Biden: "That's why tonight I'm asking our nation to come together to unite behind the single purpose of defending our democracy, regardless of your ideology."

https://www.c-span.org/video/?522563-1/president-biden-delivers-remarks…