Bill Clinton.

“Today, we celebrate this milestone amid another period of deep division, renewed questions about America’s future and role in the world, and serious threats to our own institutions and to our democracy itself,”
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“Their New Deal is socialism for the super-rich (and their own enrichment) even if it means increasing poverty, inequality, and illness at home and around the world. They also want to rewrite history to ignore and outright deny our past flaws while banning books that say otherwise from our libraries. And they select even our military leaders based on their version of political correctness over ability.

Former presidents reflect on America at 250.

Barack Obama.

America is, and always has been, a constant work in progress,” Obama wrote...
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Every generation must take up the unfinished work of the last and carry it further — protecting what’s right, fixing what’s wrong, and making our union a little more perfect.

Joe Biden.

calling the Declaration of Independence “a promise” to the nation from the Founding Fathers that Americans have spent more than two and a half centuries trying to fulfill.
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“Now it’s our turn. There’s nothing guaranteed about our democracy,” he wrote... “We have to fight for it, defend it, and earn it. Over and over, year after year. That’s not a burden. That’s what it means to be an American.”

George W. Bush.

Americans need to take an active interest in the health and wellbeing of the country and democracy.

“It requires Americans to vote, to be involved in the democratic process,” the Republican said, adding that while “you may not like outcomes of the elections,” one must focus on the fact that the capacity to vote and determine the country’s future is a “powerful freedom.”

While the current President warns about "a resurgence of the communist menace in our land, including from newcomers to our country who embrace ideas totally opposed to our way of life and our great success."

This is the new GOP talking point for the midterms. Watch and listen. Hopefully, a majority of Americsn voters don't fall for it.