A Boring Biden Presidency? Don’t Bet on It
Cato Podcast
Cato Institute
4.5 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Will a Biden Administration bring us nothing more than an undoing of the executive actions of the Trump team? That's an unlikely outcome, according to Gene Healy.
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| 0:36.4 | This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, December 11, 2020. |
| 0:40.2 | I'm Caleb Brown. |
| 0:41.4 | The current president has called Joe Biden the most boring human |
| 0:45.0 | being I've ever seen. So will we get a presidency to match? Maybe so and maybe not. |
| 0:50.4 | Joe Biden will enter the White House under significant pressure |
| 0:53.5 | to do way more than just undo the last four years of executive action. |
| 0:58.8 | Cato's Jean Healy, author of the cult of the presidency, |
| 1:01.5 | details why Biden Harris may be anything but boring. |
| 1:06.1 | Just before the election Donald Trump said apparently as a threat that if Joe Biden were elected president nobody would be interested in politics anymore |
| 1:17.0 | and that sounds pretty good |
| 1:20.0 | so is he right about Biden Harris and the fact that things might end up being boring again? |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah, it did sound towards the end like he was trying to almost make the case for his opponent. |
| 1:35.2 | I think a lot of us would enjoy being bored by politics. |
| 1:40.9 | And well, I don't think he's right about that. I think it's true that Joe Biden's |
| 1:49.0 | Twitter feed is going to be a lot more boring than Donald Trump's Twitter feed. |
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