US President Joe Biden, campaigning for the Democratic Party before the legislative elections in November, estimated Thursday August 25 that the most virulent Republicans had an ideology of
“semi-fascism”
.
At a fundraising event at an opulent private residence, the 79-year-old Democrat harshly criticized the most extreme fringe of the conservative camp and its
"extreme MAGA philosophy"
.
The acronym MAGA refers to former President Donald Trump's iconic slogan, "Make America Great Again."
“What we are witnessing today is either the birth or the death knell of an extreme MAGA philosophy. It's not just Trump, it's a whole philosophy (...). It's like semi-fascism
,” he said according to journalists present at this event, in the inner suburbs of Washington.
“It is no longer the Republican Party that our parents knew.
It's something else
," he said.
"We have to win
," said the leader of the Democrats.
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The midterm legislative elections, which will be held in November, are traditionally difficult for the party of the incumbent American president.
The Democratic camp and Joe Biden, whose prospects were further weighed down by galloping inflation, have nevertheless regained momentum in recent polls.
The majority of commentators believe in particular that the abolition of the constitutional right to abortion at the end of June by the very conservative Supreme Court turned a certain number of voters away from the Republican Party.