Why Is Joe Biden Afraid of ‘Normal?’

The Commentary Magazine Podcast

Commentary Magazine

Politics, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The podcast dissects Joe Biden’s CNN town hall and tries to parse his administration’s conspicuous fear of affirming that society will ever return to something resembling “normal.” Also, the battle for the soul of the GOP continues with Trump in the wilderness.

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0:00.0	music.
0:24.3	Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily Podcast.
0:26.9	Today is Wednesday, February 17th, 2021.
0:30.0	I'm John Puthhortz, the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor
0:34.0	A Greenwald Hyay.
0:36.0	Hi John.
0:37.0	Associate editor Noah Rothman, Hynawa.
0:39.4	Hi John.
0:40.4	And senior writer Christine Rosen, Hykristine.
0:42.6	Hi John.
0:44.2	So Joe Biden made his first extended television appearance since his assumption of the presidency
0:54.8	in an hour long town hall with Anderson Cooper on CNN in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1:04.4	And I'm going to propose a theory and then we can discuss whether this theory is suitable
1:10.5	based on everything that Biden laid out last night.
1:16.8	There seems to be a deliberate strategy, an interesting deliberate strategy to be the anti-Trump
1:23.8	in a way that I don't think we have discussed or that people haven't discussed, which is
1:27.4	that Trump is always the best, the greatest of this.
1:30.5	We're making changes like never before.
1:32.5	Everything is the best, better than it's ever been or will ever be in the history of everything.
1:38.3	And Biden seems deliberately convinced that what he should be doing is under promising
1:47.2	and over delivering.
1:49.5	And that when he talks about coronavirus, when he talks about the vaccine and its administration
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