Franklin Foer
Appearances
Apple News Today
“Nothing there but the chimney.” L.A. evacuees return to rubble.
He made all this investment in restoring American manufacturing. The country is in actually quite good shape.
Apple News Today
“Nothing there but the chimney.” L.A. evacuees return to rubble.
I mean, he's leaving Donald Trump with material economic conditions for Donald Trump to be a very successful president if he doesn't lift a finger.
Apple News Today
“Nothing there but the chimney.” L.A. evacuees return to rubble.
His idea of persuasion and compromise and searching for something in the middle that actually gets done as opposed to demonizing one's enemies. I'd say that that approach wasn't that successful in his presidency. I mean, it was successful in producing legislation, but it wasn't politically successful.
Apple News Today
“Nothing there but the chimney.” L.A. evacuees return to rubble.
When he ran for office, he said that his primary mission was to defend democracy against autocracy.
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“Nothing there but the chimney.” L.A. evacuees return to rubble.
He was saying that he was not going to allow Donald Trump to return to the White House. And so whatever great successes Joe Biden might have had over the course of his first two years, where he produced a bounty of domestic legislation, they're kind of erased by the fact that he failed on his largest objective of them all.
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“Nothing there but the chimney.” L.A. evacuees return to rubble.
I think that there still is a pretty good shot for Joe Biden that he gets re-rated over the course of the coming decades by historians in the same sort of way that Carter comes out better now than he did in the immediate aftermath of his presidency, where his name was kind of synonymous with Trump. with failure.
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“Nothing there but the chimney.” L.A. evacuees return to rubble.
I think there's a lot more similarities in terms of the economics of economic nationalism of Joe Biden and Donald Trump. They're both guys who kind of sat at the threshold of new epics in American history. And I think they both played pretty significant roles in the birth of the new political orders.