Tapper: The Entire Democratic Party Bought into the Argument That Trump Was an Existential Threat, So They Covered Up Biden’s Decline
‘If you convince yourself that the enemy is an existential threat, you can justify almost anything’
May 22, 2025 2:00 AM
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TAPPER: “— because the whole conceit behind why this happened was because Joe Biden, his advisers, and to a large degree the entire Democratic Party, bought into the argument that Donald Trump posed an existential threat to the United States. Joe Biden was the only one who could defeat him, and therefore, anything that went after Joe Biden would help Donald Trump. That argument, when you — when you convince yourself that you’re — that the enemy — if you’re a Democrat, the enemy is Donald Trump — if you convince yourself that the enemy is an existential threat, you can justify almost anything.”