Feb 23, 2021
By U.S. President Joe Biden’s own admission, defeating Donald Trump was the main motivating force of his campaign. As his administration clarifies its economic agenda, however, it’s becoming clear that Biden’s true legacy lies not in rolling back Trump’s policies but in refining them.
Of course there are many differences, in both style and substance, between Biden and Trump. Yet the underlying message of Biden’s Build Back Better program is not that far removed from Trump’s Make America Great Again mantra. Rhetoric aside, the policy rationale is even more similar.
Biden’s ambitions for clean energy, for example, are far greener than anything envisioned by Trump. Crucially, however, the underlying goal U.S. “energy dominance,” as Trump called it remains the same. If anything, Biden’s agenda pushes the United States further into the frontiers of global energy production.
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When a young Chuck Schumer arrived at Harvard in 1967 as a freshman, he joined the great political stirring of those yearsâwho could resist it? But Abbie Hoffman he was not. âI was faced with what Alexander Hamilton called
mobocracy,â Schumer recalled in his coauthored 2007 book
Positively American. He became a College Democrat, canvassed for Eugene McCarthy, and eschewed the radicals. Campus members of the New Leftâs Progressive Labor faction horrified him, and he felt âsickenedâ seeing protesters scream at cops. âThe police werenât pigs. They were the people Iâd grown up with. They were my neighbors. My friends. They were the Baileys [imaginary Irish-American Long Islanders with whom Schu