8 Feb, 2023 22:17
Why Joe Biden is more dangerous than Donald Trump 1 of 2
The President’s State of the Union address shows he is a symptom of America’s problems, just like his predecessor
Joe Biden conducted his State of the Union address on Tuesday night. A staple trait of Biden’s presidency is that he repeatedly claims that he is making things better for ordinary Americans. In his own words, he is…“delivering for families”. He frames himself as an FDR style titan who is reinvigorating the US following troubled times, and, in his words, making it “more competitive” than ever.
In reality,his statements could not be further from the truth.The United States is in chaos and the Biden admin faces painfully low approval ratings, crippling levels of inflation, weak 2022 GDP and a looming recession.
Whatever the expectations of Joe Biden were, he hasproved himself to be the most dangerous and hawkish Democrat leading the US since Harry Truman. As America tears itself apart at home, it is also doing so abroad.
When Joe Biden entered office, many people expected he would be different than Donald Trump. After four years of what the media described as chaos and internal turmoil in America, Biden was heralded as a breath of fresh air who would be normal, sane and moderate.What these arguments actively overlooked was that Donald Trump was not the problem, but rather a symptom of broader American failure and decline. As the world has changed, in particular through the lingering impact of globalized neoliberal capitalism, digitization and shifts in the geopolitical balance of power, the United States has struggled to assert a coherent identity amidst a changing world which has produced deep divisions and large-scale political conflict.
This is theera of “post-truth”, and as a result, Joe Biden is not in fact better than Trump, he is infinitely worse. While Donald Trump was a populist figure who railed against the political establishment, Joe Biden is a long-standing member of the political establishment. As such, he has used his reign in office to reassert its influence and give it “Trumpian characteristics”.
That includes the same brand of conceited bragging, populism and political squabbles at home, but with a foreign policy abroad which isdangerously more aggressivethan anything Trump ever conceived. America’s increasingly dangerous involvement in the Ukraine conflict is a prime example.
https://www.rt.com/news/571182-biden-trump-us-sotu/