democrats are really saying "this is NOT america, we have always stood for PEACE, JUSTICE, and DEMOCRACY" as if that isn't just a liberal take on the same bullshit "we have to return to the halcyon days when america was Good" rhetoric that trump uses LMAO... america has always been racist and violent and imperialist and when biden talks about how this isn't The Real America he's referring to a fake idealistic version of america that has literally never existed
Tosaka Jun talks about how during the rise of Japanese fascism genuinely antifascist and antiinperialist liberals began adopting increasingly nationalistic rhetoric about “the *real* Japanese spirit strives for peace and love!” and how this was essentially moving the terrain to an area where the logical conclusion is ultranationalism