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US President Joe Biden: Money doesn't matter
Photo: TOM BRENNER / REUTERS
In the election campaign, Joe Biden was sometimes pretty stupid.
Inner-party rivals from the left portrayed him as a typically old, white man;
backward, stubborn, with no answers to the questions of the future.
Worse still: Biden's current Vice President Kamala Harris even brought the senior into the vicinity of racists in a TV duel.
Biden shook his head at such moments, smiled sheepishly, but did little to fight back.
All over, forgotten all.
Joe Biden is sitting in the White House - and after the first few weeks of his term in office one can say: The USA has probably not been ruled by a president who is so energetic to implement a largely left-progressive agenda for a long time.
By US standards, Biden's plans could almost be described as revolutionary.
In fact, the new president is above all leaving behind the neoliberal mantra of the lean state that has been in force for decades and relies on "big government", i.e. the strong, social state that is supposed to solve the country's acute problems in the corona pandemic.
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