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.
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.
When they keep reiterating it you know it’s part of the gaslighting.
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.
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”
“Will Joe Biden take his place alongside FDR and LBJ?”
One day, at Arlington, maybe.
They removed all references he made to the constitution
Mandate; we don’t need no stinking mandate!
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