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Source: The New Republic

11/8/2021

TNR Editor: Actually, Biden Was Elected to Be an FDR

If Democratic moderates want their president and their party to succeed, they need to grapple with the political decisions that have destroyed public investment and transferred the nation's wealth upward to the rich, and think of the present as a crisis comparable to the Great Depression.