Biden Forges a New Democratic Paradigm

 
Biden Forges a New Democratic Paradigm
Harold Meyerson 
February 8, 202
 
The president repudiates the neoliberal ideologies of the past and puts the party on solid economic and political ground
Well, that was a Joe Biden who could win re-election.
In his second State of the Union address, the president exhibited such a surprising display of vigor, such a capacity for empathy, such a knack for storytelling, and such a mastery of political improvisation that it’s easy to overlook the fact that the speech itself was almost a refoundation of American liberalism. 
…All of which may eclipse just how thoroughly Biden’s speech set the Democratic Party and American liberalism on sounder economic and political ground than they’ve been since the New Deal. Compare Biden’s analysis of what ails the American economy to those put forth by some previous Democratic presidents—Carter and Clinton most particularly, but at times, Obama as well—and what you see is a thorough repudiation of what once was the Democratic establishment’s holy writ. Biden declared that globalization, once touted as a solution, was really the problem. The doctrine of “Buy American,” so ridiculed by Wall Street Democrats and the self-proclaimed pragmatists who viewed corporate globalism as the inevitable way of the world, was not only affirmed by Biden but made a requirement for federally funded infrastructure projects.
https://prospect.org/politics/2023-02-08-biden-state-of-the-union-democratic-party-economy/

 

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