Not only do I believe that Biden will pursue the most progressive economic policies of any American president in recent memory, I am confident he will pursue policies that benefit "red America", the heartland, more than any of the GOP leaders who argued that's who they served.
https://twitter.com/JenGranholm/status/1334149673733427201
I believe Biden will be very worker, jobs, opportunity and equity oriented--a traditional Dem platform that is less influenced by Wall Street or corporate interests than any administration in the lifetimes of most of us.
The economic team he has picked underscores this as do Biden's own statements (see his good conversation with @tomfriedman in today's NYT). But the other message he is sending is that unlike the fake-populist exploiters of the GOP, he will work to address the economic needs...
...of America's manufacturing core, its agricultural core. Trump and McConnell exploit them to gain the power they need to serve the 1% and the result has been growing inequality and pain. Team Biden actually will work to help them.
Biden will be a 21st C. president, no doubt, but his instincts about having policies focused squarely on the middle class & those in need will make him more like FDR or Lyndon Johnson than were Obama or Clinton. The proof is in the pudding, of course. But early signs suggest it.
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