This is the Kader Daily Podcast for Friday, January 14th, 2022.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Judging from his policy priorities thus far, President Biden badly misread the 2020 election results.

According to Ramesh Panouru, the brand spanking new editor of National Review,

the consequences in November this year will likely be significant.

I believe we were promised this year will likely be significant.

I believe we were promised a president at the end of 2020 who would be boring in a sense,

that would restore a sense of normalcy what was your understanding of

the the promise of Joe Biden I think that a lot of voters selected Biden on the ground that he wasn't Donald Trump and that he would be a more normal president and that they wouldn't have to spend a whole lot of time thinking about him, frankly.

But that is not the way that President Biden has tried to govern. He has instead interpreted his election as a mandate to

achieve sweeping progressive change and I think a lot of the story of his first year in office has

been the collision of those ambitions with political reality.

So I can understand if I'm a person coming into the Biden

administration and this is the first sort of taste of being close to the

seat of power that I'm going to do everything I can to push the things that I know once

Americans get a taste of them. The various policy reforms that I know are the right thing to do, that they're just going

to love it and they're going to reward my party with electoral success for a long time to come.

That doesn't strike me as too out of the ordinary for a new administration.

No, you know, the thing is this is the fifth presidency in a row that we have had where the president

started out with unified control of Congress

and started trying to put through his agenda.

Now the previous four presidents lost both chambers of Congress during their

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