President Biden is Being Too Nice — MAGA Republicans Are Terrorists

Threatening violence to keep the DOJ from indicting Trump is an act of attempted political intimidation. There’s a word for that.

Tim Wise
AfroSapiophile
Published in
7 min readSep 3, 2022

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President Biden is being too diplomatic.

In his speech from Philadelphia Thursday, he said that MAGA Republicans were a threat to democracy and other core American values.

Several days earlier, he had referred to them as semi-fascist.

While these descriptions are accurate if understated — I’m not sure I’d throw in the “semi” part — there’s a better term for them.

He won’t say it, but I will.

MAGA-fied Republicans are terrorists.

While there are many Republicans who do not deserve this label, they are the ones who still struggle, however Quixotically, against the Trumpian tides that have inundated the shores of their Party like a typhoon for six-plus years.

I am not speaking of them. Instead, I refer to those who have chosen to surf those waves on boards of bigotry and insurrection.

They — the hardcore acolytes and the more traditional conservatives who have cast aside principle to curry favor with an extremist base —…

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Tim Wise
AfroSapiophile

Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)