Biden's Agenda Meets Reality

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🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

With President Biden’s domestic agenda breaking down as he heads off on his first foreign trip, the gang talks about what it will take to get anything done in Washington. One person responsible for a great deal of stress for President Biden is Sen. Joe Manchin. Is he helping or hurting the Democrats? Plus, as U.S. forces begin to withdraw from Afghanistan, Sarah, Steve, Jonah, and David worry what will take its place. Finally: doom porn. Need we say more? Show Notes: -ProPublica tax story -Politico’s story on Biden and Manchin’s ‘Joemance’ -Cicadas vs. the presidential press plane -Joe Manchin: Why I'm voting against the For the People Act -Are We Destined for a Trump Coup in 2024? - Ross Douthat -Americans Are Dangerously Divided on the Insurrection - William Saletan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Dispatch Podcast.
0:02.3	I'm your host, Sara Isger joined by David French,
0:05.0	Steve Hayes and Jonah Goldberg.
0:07.9	Today, we are going to talk about the stalled Biden agenda,
0:12.3	whether Joe Manchin is helping or hurting Democrats,
0:15.3	the CIA's role in Afghanistan as it evolves.
0:19.5	And finally, is the doom and gloom over 2024
0:24.9	overstating the case?
0:26.4	Let's dive in. Jonah, finds agenda. Where does it stand?
0:46.0	I think it's stalled, stuck, problematic.
0:51.2	I just before we started recording this,
0:55.4	I saw on TV that the official infrastructure talks have broken down.
1:00.1	And I have my LA Times column is up at the Dispatch.
1:06.3	My basic thesis is that Biden was misled by a bunch of liberal historians
1:15.0	who said he could be FDR.
1:16.4	He was misled by the fact that his first COVID relief package was very, very popular.
1:21.2	And they seem to have assumed that because that was popular,
1:24.6	other aspects of the Biden agenda would be popular.
1:29.6	And it turns out that not to use your lawyerly like Latin stuff,
1:36.6	but legislation that gives people just big lump sums of cash
1:40.2	in their pocket, no strings attached,
1:42.5	tends to be legislatively sui generis
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