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No, There's No Mandate to Remake America
Townhall.com ^ | May 5, 2021 | Byron York

Posted on 05/05/2021 4:00:38 AM PDT by Kaslin

Does President Joe Biden have a mandate to rebuild the United States? To remake American capitalism? To reshape the role of government? The president's Democratic supporters say yes. But the results of the election that brought Biden to office say no.

Biden advocates argue that he can bring change to America in the style of Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the New Deal and Lyndon Johnson during the Great Society. "Will Joe Biden take his place alongside FDR and LBJ?" asks a news analysis on CNN.com. Authors Stephen Collinson and Caitlin Hu seem optimistic -- if Biden can pass his massive "infrastructure" bill, they write, he "will lay claim to a spot in the Democratic pantheon alongside Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson who used vast government power to reorient the economy and benefit the poor with their New Deal and Great Society programs."

"Can Biden Join FDR and LBJ in the Democratic Party's Pantheon?" asks National Public Radio. "Biden, Like FDR and LBJ, Sees Opportunity in a Moment of Crisis," says historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. "Biden is planning for a Great Society 2.0," writes Washington Post columnist James Hohmann.

It's all wishful thinking. Yes, like FDR and LBJ, Biden has been elected president of the United States. But the voters have given Biden nowhere near the power they gave Roosevelt and Johnson. When voters want presidents to do big things, they give them big victories, both in their own elections and those in Congress.

Does President Joe Biden have a mandate to rebuild the United States? To remake American capitalism? To reshape the role of government? The president's Democratic supporters say yes. But the results of the election that brought Biden to office say no.

Biden advocates argue that he can bring change to America in the style of Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the New Deal and Lyndon Johnson during the Great Society. "Will Joe Biden take his place alongside FDR and LBJ?" asks a news analysis on CNN.com. Authors Stephen Collinson and Caitlin Hu seem optimistic -- if Biden can pass his massive "infrastructure" bill, they write, he "will lay claim to a spot in the Democratic pantheon alongside Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson who used vast government power to reorient the economy and benefit the poor with their New Deal and Great Society programs."

"Can Biden Join FDR and LBJ in the Democratic Party's Pantheon?" asks National Public Radio. "Biden, Like FDR and LBJ, Sees Opportunity in a Moment of Crisis," says historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. "Biden is planning for a Great Society 2.0," writes Washington Post columnist James Hohmann.

It's all wishful thinking. Yes, like FDR and LBJ, Biden has been elected president of the United States. But the voters have given Biden nowhere near the power they gave Roosevelt and Johnson. When voters want presidents to do big things, they give them big victories, both in their own elections and those in Congress.

And that is supposed to produce the next FDR or LBJ? American politics just doesn't work that way.

Back in 1993, when then-first lady Hillary Clinton was pushing Congress to pass a universal health care bill, Democratic Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned her that she needed big majorities for something so momentous and far-reaching. Landmark bills don't squeak through Congress with a single-vote majority, Moynihan reportedly told Clinton. "They pass 70-to-30, or they fail."

Back then, Moynihan's Democratic Senate colleague Joe Biden would likely have agreed. But today's Biden Democrats believe the big-majority standard longer applies. Why not remake the United States on the strength of a vote or two in the House? Why not remake the U.S. on a 50-50 tie in the Senate, broken by the vice president?

Maybe Democrats can pull it off. But maybe the old rules -- and common sense -- still apply.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidenadmin; govspending; joebiden
Biden did not win the election. It was stolen for him and the author knows it.
1 posted on 05/05/2021 4:00:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

This goes back to 2008 and The One:

https://youtu.be/oKxDdxzX0kI


2 posted on 05/05/2021 4:09:05 AM PDT by polymuser (A socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: polymuser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poz6W0znOfk


3 posted on 05/05/2021 4:11:13 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Kaslin
 
 
Biden advocates argue that he can bring change to America in the style of Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the New Deal and Lyndon Johnson during the Great Society.
 
Poor choices to use as shining examples since both were disastrous maneuvers that knocked the US down several notches at a time and changed a lot for the worst.
 
 

4 posted on 05/05/2021 4:14:47 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Kaslin
"Biden" -- the Democrat collective.

They do have a mandate to remake America. Not from the people, but from their bosses among the big corporations. That is the folks who are financing BLM, etc.

The "commies" if you will, are crony capitalists who want more power than money can buy. Buy directly, that is.

5 posted on 05/05/2021 4:32:36 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Kaslin

When they keep reiterating it you know it’s part of the gaslighting.


6 posted on 05/05/2021 5:09:39 AM PDT by cld51860 (We’re doomed.)
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To: Kaslin
No, There's No Mandate to Remake America

Revolutions do not utilize the concept of "mandates".

People who try to undermine the Power using concepts like "mandates", "Fairness", "the rules", "legal votes/legal voters" are barking up the wrong tree.

That is not at all what we are dealing with.

7 posted on 05/05/2021 5:15:46 AM PDT by Jim Noble (<p>)
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To: Kaslin
Democrats don't need a mandate. If they have a one-vote majority they get things done. Republicans with majorities in both houses and the white house are afraid to act for fear of "being blamed".
8 posted on 05/05/2021 5:33:58 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Kaslin

When they started this they used a radio ad campaign where they used MLK’s pleas but removed any reference he made to God and the references to “All men are equal”


9 posted on 05/05/2021 6:14:03 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (AKA Lee J Keslin posting in the hopes comments get passed around )
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To: Kaslin

“Will Joe Biden take his place alongside FDR and LBJ?”

One day, at Arlington, maybe.


10 posted on 05/05/2021 6:14:44 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: mosesdapoet

They removed all references he made to the constitution


11 posted on 05/05/2021 6:16:14 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (AKA Lee J Keslin posting in the hopes comments get passed around )
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To: Celerity

Mandate; we don’t need no stinking mandate!


12 posted on 05/05/2021 6:33:39 AM PDT by CoastWatcher
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