Parallax Views w/ J.G. Michael Critiquing Joe Biden w/ Branko Marcetic
On this edition of Parallax Views, what should we know about the newly elected President of the United States, Joe Biden? How has he operated in the past as a politician? What special interests may seek to influence his administration? What is his relationship to organized labor? What should progressives expect from him?
Branko Marcetic, a staff writer for Jacobin magazine and author of Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden, joins us for the hour to tackle these questions and many others. We discuss:
- the Biden administration and the Wall Street investment firm Blackrock
- Biden, the military-industrial complex, and the foreign policy think tank the Center for a New American Security
- the "America is back" and "return to normal" rhetoric of Bidenism
- can Biden be pressured by the Left (or, for that matter, the Right)?
- Biden and neoliberalism
- Biden and the AFL-CIO
- Answering the question of whether Biden should be criticized from the Left or if that would only empower Trumpism
- Biden's Presidency so far and his early Executive Orders
- Biden and the Amazon Union vote
- Biden and the suburban middle class; Reagan Democrats
- And much, much more!