Biden is rediscovering America’s lost soul with his spending spree
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By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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Joe Biden has embraced Nordic socialism with breathtaking speed and more than a hint of pietistic fervour, but there is nothing “un-American” about this Leftward lurch.
America has always had its socialist side, a communitarian idealism that began with the New England Puritans and the Pennsylvania Quakers. This ethic has been in a 400-year struggle against the primacy of property, the rival ideology of the planter oligarchy in the antebellum South. You could say that the two sides fought a civil war over the matter.