{"id":1631484,"date":"2022-09-02T23:49:16","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T03:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1631484"},"modified":"2022-09-02T23:49:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T03:49:19","slug":"i-feel-less-safe-as-a-maga-republican-carol-swain-on-bidens-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-feel-less-safe-as-a-maga-republican-carol-swain-on-bidens-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Feel Less Safe as a MAGA Republican\u2019: Carol Swain on Biden\u2019s Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-feel-less-safe-as-a-maga-republican-carol-swain-on-bidens-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1631484&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Dr. Carol M. Swain, distinguished senior fellow for constitutional studies at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, said Friday she was still trying to recover from watching President Joe Biden\u2019s polarizing Thursday, prime time speech.<\/p>\n<p>A speech in which Biden called Republicans like Swain, who believe in America, enemies of the state and anti-democratic because she said, they ask questions, love the nation, and are concerned about what\u2019s taking place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do think conservatives are less safe after his speech than before,\u201d Swain told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>She also believes Biden was trying to divide Republicans into good and evil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I believe in, would fall into the group that he has labeled as evil, threatening, un-American extremists,\u201d said Swain, a conservative. \u201cThe way he was framing this speech, attacking and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-maga\">MAGA<\/a> Republicans, he was also using that white supremacist label.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And she wonders why he would label and attack MAGA, the people who want to Make America Great Again,\u00a0a group of people committed to strengthening the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no one that can look at America today from anywhere in the world, and not to say that we haven\u2019t declined,\u201d Swain said. \u201cI felt that he was putting a target on our backs. And people who have been proud MAGA Republicans might begin to become fearful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, she says, that that would be the wrong response.\u00a0Just like when Hillary Clinton called Republicans deplorables, Swain says MAGA Americans should embrace the label.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re trying to demonize something that\u2019s good, we should embrace it,\u201d Swain says she posted that sentiment on Twitter on Thursday night to encourage people and to remind them that MAGA Republicans care about the Constitution, the rule of law, their fellow Americans, and they care about Judeo Christian values and principles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut as an American citizen who falls into the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Carol M. Swain, distinguished senior fellow for constitutional studies at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, said Friday she was still trying to recover from watching President Joe Biden\u2019s polarizing Thursday, prime time speech. 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