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In recent weeks, following Reverend Raphael Warnock’s stunning win in a senatorial race in Georgia and the nuggets of biblical language and references to Pope Francis’s thoughts in President Joe Biden’s inaugural address, the American political left is atwitter with the possibility that a religious revival in American society can power the progressive left.
In a widely circulated opinion piece by Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons and Maggie Siddiqi of the Center for American Progress on the NBC News website, they argued:
“If there was any lingering doubt, last week made it clear: the religious left is not a curious outlier in American politics. The religious references during President Joe Biden’s inauguration, the inaugural prayer service held [on] Thursday morning with a powerful line-up of religious leaders and the swearing-in of the Reverend Raphael Warnock as a newly minted senator are proof that progressive peopl
Biden Needs A Democratic Senate To Govern
Why? Because the GOP wants to block the Biden agenda. Of course, that’s the point. Or is it really Biden’s agenda? Or Kamala’s agenda? Or Chuck’s? Or Nancy’s? Or “Sandy’s”, even?
Biden campaigned alongside Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock as they try to unseat Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler in the January 5th runoff elections, saying he “needs two Democrats from the state of Georgia” to flip the Senate and “he wants to get something done”. It’s so cute that Joe Biden now wants to “get something done”, isn’t it? What does he want to “get done”? Well, confronting the Coronavirus pandemic, for starters. Then, Joe Bidenleap “all other national challenges” in one single bound.