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The American Left’s Fantastic Threats

President Biden warns of nonexistent threats like book bans, voter suppression, and telling people who they can love, but they don't exist. The American Left is seeing things it shouldn't.

President Biden warns of nonexistent threats such as book bans, telling people who they can love, and voter suppression.
Liberal commentators have mocked conservatives for fearing negligible or nonexistent threats in the past, but now they are doing the same.
There is a strange urge to tremble at the presence of imaginary beasts accompanied by an astonishing lack of self-awareness.
The closest thing to real book bans in the US today is perpetrated by precisely the sort of people who bewail book bans.
Mr. Biden repeatedly warns of “white supremacy,” which has no purchase in American life.

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