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Biden misses a coup in Tunisia

By Washington Examiner
Published July 29, 2021 4:00am ET
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Biden misses a coup in Tunisia
In this photo taken Sunday, Jan. 26, 2014, members of the Tunisian National Constituent Assembly celebrate the adoption of the new constitution in Tunis, Tunisia. After decades of dictatorship and two years of arguments and compromises, Tunisians on Sunday finally have a new constitution laying the foundations for a new democracy. The document is groundbreaking as one of the most progressive constitutions in the Arab world - and for the fact that it got written at all. It passed late Sunday by 200 votes out of 216 in the Muslim Mediterranean country that inspired uprisings across the region after overthrowing a dictator in 2011. (AP Photo/Aimen Zine) | Aimen Zine

President Joe Biden claimed in his inaugural address that future generations would see that his administration “met the moment — that democracy and hope, truth, and justice did not die on our watch but thrived.”

Biden and his fellow Democrats make much of their supposed struggle to defend democracy against the highly unlikely prospect of a Trump dictatorship. But when it comes to real coups and the actual thwarting of democracy, their attention wanders away.

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