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The Dispatch Podcast

The Dispatch

News, Politics

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🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Joe Biden was officially sworn in as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday. He assumes office at one of the darkest moments in United States history, when a global pandemic has taken the lives of more than 400,000 Americans and rampant polarization continues to test our nation’s character. Did his inaugural address meet the moment? Was his call for unity too idealistic? On today’s episode, our hosts discuss Biden’s day one executive orders and the once and future Republican Party before breaking down today’s inauguration ceremony, speech and all. Show Notes: -“Biden's Two Tasks: Repairing Deep Divisions and Defeating a Deadly Disease” by David French in The Dispatch. -Take our podcast survey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the inauguration episode of the Dispatch podcast.
0:04.9	I'm your host, Sarah Isger joined by Steve Hayes, Jonah Goldberg and David French.
0:10.6	Today we are talking about all the things around the inauguration, but listeners, I'm going
0:15.3	to let you in on a little bit of sausage making here.
0:18.6	We normally tape at 10 a.m. Eastern time, which means that we taped some of this podcast
0:24.3	before the inauguration happened.
0:26.4	We all took a break from one another and came back after the inauguration so we could discuss,
0:32.4	President Biden's speech and all of the stuff around it.
0:36.4	So there's going to be a little gap in the commercial break.
0:40.2	You will not feel a thing, but we will have traveled through time and space.
0:58.8	Let's dive in, David.
1:01.6	You have some notes of optimism.
1:03.5	You have some notes of pessimism on this day where we swear in a new President of the United
1:09.2	States for the next four years.
1:11.7	Yeah, I'm going to be watching the inaugural and I've been thinking a lot about what are
1:17.4	the reasonable best case scenarios for a Biden presidency?
1:22.2	What are the reasonable worst case scenarios or bad case scenarios?
1:27.9	Because I think a lot of the rhetoric running into the election, well, this will be a shock
1:33.0	to nobody.
1:34.0	It's extremely overheated, Biden will destroy America, Biden will end America.
1:39.7	No, he's going to be a mainstream Democratic president with a super, super, the narrowest
1:43.9	possible Senate majority.
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