Should You Vote For Biden?: An Argument with Benjamin Studebaker

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🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This episode was originally posted for Patreon subscribers only, but as the election draws closer, we are now releasing it to everyone. Current Affairs editor Nathan Robinson is in favour of voting for Biden. Current Affairs contributor Benjamin Studebaker is against voting for Biden. Together, they debate what the left should do at the ballot box come November 2020. (Please note this episode was recorded in early September, and before the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.) Nathan's article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/an-ineffectual-biden-presidency-is-better-for-the-left-than-an-actively-authoritarian-trump-presidency Benjamin's article: https://benjaminstudebaker.com/2020/08/31/the-left-case-against-supporting-joe-biden-in-the-general-election/ This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Nathan Robinson, editor of Current Affairs Magazine, and I am here today to have an argument.
0:06.1	I am having an argument with Mr. Benjamin Studebaker.
0:10.0	He is a...
0:11.4	What are you now?
0:12.5	What is your position now?
0:13.4	Because you've got your PhD, yes?
0:14.8	I just got the PhD from Cambridge, and now I'm going to do that.
0:18.7	Okay, so he is a prospective political science professor?
0:24.1	Yeah.
0:24.4	Is that the field?
0:25.1	Yeah.
0:25.5	So prospective politicals at recent graduate of Cambridge, and he is a blogger at
0:30.2	Benjamin at studio baker.com.
0:31.9	He's also written for current affairs.
0:33.4	And we are here today because we wrote sort of dueling articles.
0:37.4	I wrote one entitled, an ineffectual Biden presidency is better for the left than an actively authoritarian Trump presidency.
0:47.9	And Mr. Benjamin, Student Baker took great issue with that.
0:51.2	And he wrote an article of his own entitled, that may see if I get the exact
0:55.8	title, the left case against supporting Joe Biden in the general election. So we have entirely
1:04.0	diametrically opposed opinions on this, and today we're going to hash it out. So why don't you start by giving us the left case against supporting Joe Biden in the general
1:15.6	election?
1:16.4	Yeah, so I think when we talk about what's wrong with the Republicans, a lot of what's
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