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President’s UN Speech Aims at Erasing Trump and Contradicting Unnamed Authoritarian Nations

President’s UN Speech Aims at Erasing Trump and Contradicting Unnamed Authoritarian Nations
President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual COVID Summit of the United Nations General Assembly at the South Court Auditorium at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on Sept. 22, 2021. Alex Wong/Getty Images
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President Joe Biden’s U.N. speech on Sept. 22 showed yet again that he has spent so long in the trenches of partisan political conflict that even as the president of the United States, speaking to the world ostensibly on behalf of his country, he can’t help seeing everything beyond our borders (such as they still are), as well as everything within them, in terms of domestic politics.

James Bowman
James Bowman
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James Bowman is a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. The author of “Honor: A History,” he is a movie critic for The American Spectator and the media critic for The New Criterion.
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