Biden’s Opening Salvo | The Roundtable Ep. 53
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
It’s official: Biden is the 46th president. Beneath the inane boilerplate of the new president’s speech (accompanied by a tearful chorus of celebration from the usual journos) lurked a much more sinister kind of rhetoric. Our editors give a close reading of the address. Plus: Biden scrapped the 1776 Commission. What’s he up to?
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the roundtable. |
| 0:03.0 | Look at those images today, right? |
| 0:05.4 | I mean, am I nuts? |
| 0:06.2 | Like you look at the images, like, wait a minute, |
| 0:08.4 | America, blah, blah, blah, and a peaceful transition of power |
| 0:11.7 | in a militarized city where there's no citizens and only |
| 0:15.2 | elites? |
| 0:16.3 | This is insane. |
| 0:18.3 | Like even visually it's done, like those images are done. |
| 0:21.4 | And I think the worry is that we have to be watchful |
| 0:25.3 | and take action and move forward |
| 0:29.2 | and build the things we need to build right now |
| 0:30.7 | because what they're doing is creating a erratically unstable |
| 0:34.7 | situation where the language everyone speaks, the fantasy they project, all of this has |
| 0:40.8 | nothing to do with reality. That's a really dangerous place to be as a country. The Welcome everyone once again to the roundtable. |
| 1:12.8 | The Publishers and Editors Podcast here at the American Mind |
| 1:15.8 | at the Claremont Institute. |
| 1:17.2 | I'm your host, Ryan Williams, president of the Claremont Institute, |
| 1:19.5 | publisher of the American Mind. |
| 1:21.6 | And the Claremont Review of of books I'm joined by Matthew |
| 1:24.6 | Peterson Vice President of Education and founding editor of the American |
| 1:28.1 | mind who's staring oddly into his bullet pierced whiskey glass. |
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