‘I Feel Less Safe as a MAGA Republican’: Carol Swain on Biden’s Speech

Dr. Carol M. Swain, distinguished senior fellow for constitutional studies at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, said Friday she was still trying to recover from watching President Joe Biden’s polarizing Thursday, prime time speech.

A speech in which Biden called Republicans like Swain, who believe in America, enemies of the state and anti-democratic because she said, they ask questions, love the nation, and are concerned about what’s taking place.

“I do think conservatives are less safe after his speech than before,” Swain told The Epoch Times.

She also believes Biden was trying to divide Republicans into good and evil.

“What I believe in, would fall into the group that he has labeled as evil, threatening, un-American extremists,” said Swain, a conservative. “The way he was framing this speech, attacking and MAGA Republicans, he was also using that white supremacist label.”

And she wonders why he would label and attack MAGA, the people who want to Make America Great Again, a group of people committed to strengthening the nation.

“There’s no one that can look at America today from anywhere in the world, and not to say that we haven’t declined,” Swain said. “I felt that he was putting a target on our backs. And people who have been proud MAGA Republicans might begin to become fearful.”

But, she says, that that would be the wrong response. Just like when Hillary Clinton called Republicans deplorables, Swain says MAGA Americans should embrace the label.

“They’re trying to demonize something that’s good, we should embrace it,” Swain says she posted that sentiment on Twitter on Thursday night to encourage people and to remind them that MAGA Republicans care about the Constitution, the rule of law, their fellow Americans, and they care about Judeo Christian values and principles.

“But as an American citizen who falls into the

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