President Joe Biden boasted that democracies are “getting stronger, not weaker” and cited how voters “rejected the voices of extremism” in last November’s midterm elections as one sign of progress during a session at the second Summit for Democracy on March 29.
“Today, we can say, with pride, democracies of the world are getting stronger, not weaker,” Biden said. “Autocracies of the world are getting weaker, not stronger. That’s a direct result of all of us.”
The United States has demonstrated that democracy can still do “big things” by “bringing down the cost of prescription drugs and health insurance premiums, rebuilding America’s infrastructure, driving innovation and tackling the climate crisis while all upgrading good union jobs,” Biden said….