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Biden started as he means to go on and it will be bad for Jews

Joe Biden promised a return to normal after the unseemly excitements of the Trump interlude. And normal is what we now have, writes Dominic Green

April 29, 2021 10:08
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US President Joe Biden speaks in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on March 31, 2021. - President Biden will unveil in Pittsburgh a $2 trillion infrastructure plan aimed at modernizing the United States' crumbling transport network, creating millions of jobs and enabling the country to "out-compete" China. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
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It is an American tradition that a new President’s performance is judged after his first 100 days. Like all American traditions, this is a recent invention, reflecting how the media have deformed public life and turned politics into a piece of theatre.

Unless you’re Napoleon, the hundred-day count is arbitrary. It does, though, tell us what kind of presidency we’ll be getting. And this one will not be good for the Jews.

Joe Biden has been in Washington so long that he may remember when the Democrats still had Southern segregationists in their ranks. For decades he specialised in the rhetoric of American supremacy: saluting the flag, waving the apple pie, defending the American way of life by passing laws that sent a generation of young black men to jail and signing off on foolish foreign wars.

Biden now claims to have undergone a late-life conversion. The dodderer that Donald Trump called “Sleepy Joe” has gone woke. He calls America racist in its roots and heart. He argues for blasting the bodies of children with hormones to “transition” boys into girls. He talks about the need to push “social justice” and “racial justice” and “environmental justice” onto the school curriculum.