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Historians privately warn Biden that America’s democracy is teetering

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When Biden met with historians last week at the White House, they compared the threat facing America to the pre-Civil War era and to pro-fascist movements before World War II

Comparisons have been made to the years before the election of 1860 when Abraham Lincoln warned that “a house divided against itself cannot continue” and to the period before the election of 1940, when President Franklin Roosevelt struggled with growing domestic sympathy for European fascism and resistance to the United States joining the World War the second.

At a press conference in January, Biden said one of the priorities of his second year in office was to get more input from academics, editorial writers, think tanks and other outside experts. “I’m asking for more input, more information, and more constructive criticism about what I should and shouldn’t do,” he told reporters.

The group that met in the White House Map Room last week was part of a regular effort by presidential historians to brief presidents, a practice that goes back at least as far as the Reagan administration. Obama has held such groups several times, although the sessions have not received attention under Trump.

After a similar meeting with Biden last spring, the August 4 rally was marked by its relatively small size and participants’ focus on the rise of totalitarianism around the world and the threat to democracy at home. They included Biden’s occasional speechwriter John Meacham, journalist Anne Applebaum, Princeton professor Sean Willentz, University of Virginia historian Alida Black, and presidential historian Michael Bichloss. White House senior adviser Anita Dunn and speechwriter Vinay Reddy also sat at the table.

Biden, who was still infected with the coronavirus, appeared on a television screen installed next to the room’s fireplace, taking notes while sitting two floors in the Treaty Room that is part of the White House residence. Senior advisor Mike Donilon also appeared on screen, people familiar with the events say.

Applebaum, a contributor to The Atlantic, recently published a book on the erosion of democratic standards called “The Twilight of Democracy: The Tempting Seduction of Authoritarianism.” Black, a longtime adviser to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was recently appointed to the board of the Vanderbilt University Project on American Unity and Democracy, which aims to reduce political polarization.

Bichlos, a presidential historian who appears regularly on NBC and MSNBC, has recently become more vocal about what he sees as Biden’s need to fight anti-democratic forces in the country.

“I think he should speak tonight about the fact that we are all in existential danger from destroying our democracy and our democracies around the world,” Bichlos said in March on MSNBC, before Biden delivered his State of the Union address.

Willentz, the award-winning author of “The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln,” has also expressed concern in recent months about the state of the country. “We are on the verge of what Hamilton in The Federalist called brute force government,” Willentz told The Hill last month.

Some of last week’s discussions focused on parallels between the current landscape and the period before World War II, when growing authoritarianism abroad found a disturbing echo in the United States.

When Adolf Hitler of Germany and Benito Mussolini of Italy consolidated power in the 1930s, Reverend Charles Coughlin used his radio broadcasts to spread a populist anti-Semitic message in the United States. Senator Huey Long (Democrat for No) also rallied Americans against Roosevelt and sympathized with the dictatorial government.

Concerns about anti-democratic trends have long been raised by Biden, who kicked off his 2020 campaign by saying that a “battle for the soul of the nation” is underway, a play on the phrase Meacham used to name his 2018 book, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels. “

Democrats widely expect that the same ideas will underpin Biden’s re-election campaign, should he decide to press ahead with a campaign, especially if Trump is his opponent again.

Biden has continued to raise such topics in his public speeches, most recently in a July speech to a law enforcement group, where he criticized Trump for taking no immediate action as he attacked the rioters he inspired on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. In an attempt to overturn the election results last presidential election.

“You can’t be pro-insurgency and pro-democracy,” Biden told the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives. “You can’t be pro-insurgency and be pro-American.”

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