Daily: CAPTAIN AMERICA – Biden vs the Four Horsemen

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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America’s new President faces four overlapping crises – the COVID pandemic, the teetering economy, festering racial inequality and looming climate change. Does Joe Biden have the political resources to turn them around? And what about the fifth crisis, the poisoning of American democracy under Trump? The FT’s Associate Editor Edward Luce – Author of The Retreat of Western Liberalism – tells Andrew Harrison about the horrors in Biden’s in-tray. “The left wants heads on pikes – but Biden will resist that.” “Biden is inheriting low hanging fruit with Trump’s poor vaccine policy.” “Expect an information war, as much as anything else.” “Rejoining Paris on day one is very symbolic. But Biden’s environmental policies are more ambitious than that.” Presented by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:11.5	Joe Biden has promised 10 days of action on four overlapping crises in his first days in office.
1:17.6	He's casting the emergencies of coronavirus, the economy, racial injustice and climate change
1:22.0	as one big then diagram of trouble.
1:24.0	But what specifically is he going to do about them?
1:26.0	And what about the fifth unspoken crisis at the Biden administration,
1:29.0	the one so serious that Biden is treating it very gingerly,
1:32.0	healing the rancorous division in American
1:34.4	society, bringing back reason-based politics and taking the heat out of what is perilously close to becoming a
1:40.0	cold civil war. To help me make sense of all this I'm joined from Washington DC by
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