THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM his first joint address to Congress, President Biden made a beeline over to Sanders, signaling his support for the senator’s socialist policies. That said, as 2020 proved, star power isn’t everything... In fact, star power ultimately may have been the Right’s downfall.
As we know, Biden managed to campaign entirely from his basement and still win. That’s in part because Americans were feeling exhausted... exhausted by the nonstop coverage, exhausted by Trump’s ability to effectively suck all the oxygen out of the room with his constant attention-seeking comments, and exhausted by the media’s hatred of all things Trump. In the era of soaring populism on both sides, that need for solid, meaningful policies is growing increasingly apparent. As a result, many people who consider themselves Republican or Independent voted for Biden. Not because they believed in his policies, but because Biden represented a way to counter the negativity and sensationalism of politics that people had grown so sick and tired of. The only problem? Americans assumed they were voting for a candidate who would effectively keep the economic status quo...
Biden is attempting to model himself after FDR... Early in his presidency, he invited liberal historians to the White House for a discussion about how liberal he might be able to really get... and how history might treat him should he be successful. The historians (naturally) applauded his efforts and encouraged the president to pursue a radically liberal economic agenda. Though it’s still early in the Biden term, Joe Biden’s policies have proven, in many ways, to be far more populist and extreme than Trump’s... While Trump was (and is) certainly extreme on the personality front, Biden has shown a form of extremism on the policy front through his insistence on an estimated $6 trillion in stimulus spending (which is likely to be reduced thanks to pushback from the GOP and some key Dems). He’s also shown his extremism on taxes, through... • His desire to raise corporate taxes worldwide to a minimum of 15%, • His effort to raise individual income taxes on those he deems “high earners,” and through • His hope to double capital-gains taxes, thereby destroying accumulated stock market wealth for many Americans. What's even more revolutionary is his push for reparations and a social rewrite of American history. In addition, Biden is
A ‘REVOLUTIONARY’ PRESIDENT BIDEN
In fact, Americans seemed to have no idea they were getting a quasi-socialist (in the Bernie Sanders and FDR vein) who aims to remake America through a redistribution of wealth. Indeed, immediately following
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