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Date: 2024-03-28 Page is: DBtxt001.php txt00020471 |
US Politics | ||
Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess | ||
Original article:
Cuddly old Joe Biden is just as divisive as Donald Trump ever was The division in America which skyrocketed during the Trump presidency has been far from mollified This week Joe Biden gave his first address to a joint session of Congress. And despite all the clichés, the reception was distinctly warm. For President Biden is still riding on the simple fact that he is not his predecessor. Yet much of his speech was at least as Manichean as anything Donald Trump said while in office. According to Biden, in the one hundred days since he took control “America is... choosing hope over fear, truth over lies, and light over darkness.” Outside of the US it is easy to fall into line with President Biden’s generous analysis of his own performance. His administration has rejoined, or sought to rejoin every international body that the Trump administration scorned. Often for no reason other than that Trump scorned them. However, the division in America which skyrocketed during the Trump presidency has not been mollified. Far from it. Biden may have run as a cuddly centrist, but he is governing as someone deeply attracted to the leftwards drift of the Democratic Party. He has already announced tax-hikes to pay for the trillions of dollars of stimulus packages that he has been rolling out. Under Biden “tax the rich” is a popular theme, and his chosen way of trying to find his way out of the slump caused by the pandemic. The plans he has announced would see top-rate tax-payers paying 40 per cent tax. Which may sound like a bargain to some Britons, until you remember how little American tax-payers get for their dollars. Joe Biden's first 100 days: Which promises has he fulfilled?
Douglas Murray
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