To the Editor:
President Bidenâs speech to Congress and the nation was a passing of the baton from squeezing American government into a smaller and smaller box (Ronald Reaganism) back to a more expansive and supportive role for government (Lyndon Johnsonism). The wealthiest 1 percent of Americans and large corporations prospered mightily, even obscenely, during Reaganism. Now itâs time for the rest of us to see a better and more equitable economy.
Mary F. Warren
To the Editor:
The significance of President Bidenâs speech was beyond all the policy agendas he laid out â we knew most of them already. Mr. Bidenâs purpose (which I think was achieved) was to show that he is not Donald Trump, that he is an intelligent, plain-spoken, experienced public servant who is in control, and who can lay out his positions with down-to-earth words and logic and appeal to our hopes and dreams without using fear or lies. The simple, easy-to-follow quality of his speech was so
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President Joe Biden’s speech to Congress and the nation on Wednesday was a passing of the baton from an era of squeezing American government into a smaller and smaller box (Ronald Reaganism) to a more expansive and supportive role for government (Lyndon Johnsonism).
The wealthiest 1% of Americans and large corporations prospered mightily, even obscenely, during Reaganism. Now it’s time for the rest of us. It is time for a better and more equitable economy.
Mary F. Warren, Wheaton
A speech without insults
Watching President Joe Biden’s speech to Congress last night was like feeling a breath of fresh air. How wonderful to have a person in the White House who has actual plans for the future and a 100-day track record of making some progress on these plans. When the right criticizes him for being too “socialistic” and the left for “not going far enough,” you can be sure he’s on the right track.
sort of populist direction on economic issues now? is that taking i think bill clinton was a reaction to the 1980s and ronald reaganism. that s part of why his movement to the center looked that way. versus now you re seeing bill de blasio, a reaction to the at the partyism. 2010 saw this big shift toward conservative economic values and now you re seeing a bit of a backlash toward that. the republicans, sequester a few months ago and you ve seen more democrats, more comfortable talking about populist style ideas. what you re seeing is the 2012 obama campaign was pretty much about mitt romney is bad. now you re seeing a real kind of formulation around this idea of inequality being the center of what democrats talk about. this is our new kind of if you re going to elizabeth warren and bill de blasio will be thought leaders of the party now and they re drive a message of the president is saying this in some ways too, inequality is a defining quality of the party.