NO, THERE'S NO MANDATE TO RE-MAKE AMERICA. Does President Joe Biden have a mandate to rebuild the United States? To remake American capitalism? To reshape the role of government? The president's Democratic supporters say yes.
The results of the election that brought Biden to office say no.
Biden advocates argue that he can bring change to America in the style of Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the New Deal and Lyndon Johnson during the Great Society.
Authors Stephen Collinson and Caitlin Hu seem optimistic - if Biden can pass his massive "Infrastructure" bill, they write, he "Will lay claim to a spot in the Democratic pantheon alongside Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson who used vast government power to reorient the economy and benefit the poor with their New Deal and Great Society programs."
The voters have given Biden nowhere near the power they gave Roosevelt and Johnson.
Biden won the presidency with 306 electoral votes to Donald Trump's 232.
Biden won the popular vote by seven million votes, but as has often been noted, Biden's Electoral College victory rested on a total of 43,809 votes in Georgia, Arizona, and Wisconsin.
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
No, there's no mandate to re-make America
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