{"id":1639903,"date":"2022-09-13T09:34:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T13:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1639903"},"modified":"2022-09-13T09:34:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T13:34:39","slug":"sen-rubio-says-bidens-criticism-of-maga-is-reminiscent-of-third-world-dictatorships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-rubio-says-bidens-criticism-of-maga-is-reminiscent-of-third-world-dictatorships\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Rubio Says Biden\u2019s Criticism of MAGA Is Reminiscent of \u2018Third-World Dictatorships\u2019"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fsen-rubio-says-bidens-criticism-of-maga-is-reminiscent-of-third-world-dictatorships%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=1639903&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>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-marco-rubio\">Marco Rubio<\/a> (R-Fla.) on Sept. 13 criticized President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> for calling those supporting former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> \u201csemi-fascists,\u201d saying that such a remark has reminded him of third-world dictatorships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you have the president of the United States telling half the country they\u2019re a fascist because of who they voted for, that\u2019s very reminiscent of some of the things you see in third-world dictatorships,\u201d Rubio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/rubio-says-bidens-maga-bashing-evokes-third-world-dictatorships\">told<\/a> Fox News Digital at Aventura, Florida, where the National Conservatism Conference was being held.<\/p>\n<p>Biden lashed out at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-maga\">MAGA<\/a> movement during a fundraiser for Democrats at a private residence in Bethesda, Maryland, on Aug. 26. MAGA stands for \u201cMake America Great Again,\u201d the slogan of Trump\u2019s successful 2016 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing now is either the beginning or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/08\/26\/remarks-by-president-biden-at-a-reception-for-the-democratic-national-committee-3\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s not just Trump. It\u2019s the entire philosophy that underpins \u2026 I\u2019m going to say something\u2014it\u2019s almost like semi-fascism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Within days, Biden\u2019s remarks drew criticism from some Republicans, including New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).<\/p>\n<p>Sununu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-should-apologize-for-calling-maga-movement-semi-fascism-new-hampshire-governor_4694274.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=digitalsub\">wanted<\/a> Biden to apologize for his \u201chorribly inappropriate\u201d and \u201cinsulting\u201d remarks. Jordan <a href=\"https:\/\/jordan.house.gov\/media\/in-the-news\/ridiculous-jim-jordan-lambasts-biden-semi-fascism-remark\">said<\/a> Biden\u2019s words had contradicted his promise to unify the country in his inauguration address.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you\u2019re seeing now is basically, \u2018Yes, we believe in free speech, but if you hold certain views that we don\u2019t like or don\u2019t agree with, those are dangerous views, those views lead to violence, those views lead to a danger to democracy, those views are fascist,&#8217;\u201d Rubio said.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio added, \u201cVery few authoritarians go out and say, \u2018You have no right to have an opinion.\u2019 What they say is you only have the right to have a certain opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden has continued his criticism of MAGA this month. During a prime-time speech in Philadelphia on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Sept. 13 criticized President Joe Biden for calling those supporting former President Donald Trump \u201csemi-fascists,\u201d saying that such a remark has reminded him of third-world dictatorships. \u201cWhen you have the president of the United States telling half the country they\u2019re a fascist because of who they voted for, that\u2019s very [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}