president biden said to mark his first
100 days in office next week three plus
months marked by a full-blown
border crisis and progressive policy
priorities that have some political
analysts referring to him as our first
woke president let's get some expert
analysis of the biden doctrine so far
from hoover institution senior fellow
victor davis hanson great to have you
back tonight
tonight thank you let's start with this
the chicago
times has this headline it says joe
biden's bait and switch presidency
it says as a candidate joe biden
promised voters a center-left agenda and
bipartisanship
as a president he's giving them neither
biden's deception is based on the oldest
marketing technique in the book
bait and switch victor
i think there's something to that i
think a lot of people said if it's not
broken uh don't try to fix it and he
inherited a great vaccination program
and wisely he sort of said this is the
biden vaccination program that we were
vaccinating 1 million
a day in a way that the eu or russia or
china was not
the same thing was true of the economy
that the fundamentals were there with
tax reform and
energy increased production and
deregulation
he's already tampered with that we've
got record inflation now
in march and and housing gas is go and
food are going through the roof when you
pour so much printed money at so few
goods
so he didn't really have to tamper with
that but he did i think he's going to
leave the china policy and take credit
because that was a wise thing that trump
did that's sort of exposed the idea that
you appease china and they're going to
reform that's not going to happen but
what i think is the big legacy so far in
the worry
is that all of these other initiatives
of the hard left the woke initiatives uh
the voter id
initiatives the open border initiative
the identity politics
the reparations the green news they
don't poll 51 percent
shannon and he doesn't have a mandate
for them he has a 50 50 senate
a very small a margin in the house a
non-sympathetic supreme court so
you would think he'd bring everybody
together and say look
let's compromise and get some of this
and some of that but he's not
so how does he get the agenda through he
can't do it by policy so
he's doing it by process so he's saying
we're going to get rid of a 233 year old
electoral college we're going to get a
233 year old
states with the premises of national uh
election laws we're going to get rid of
that
with the national uh election law we're
going to get rid of
62 years of a 50 state union and bring
in two states we're going to get rid of
a 150-year tradition
of a nine-person supreme court and so
he's trying
trying to change the way that we do
things because the way that we do things
will not give him the intended result
because the only alternative
is to compromise and be a uniter and he
can't do that for a variety of reasons
he's mortgaged his soul with a hard left
yeah i mean but that's what he told us
and even talked about this on
inauguration day he talked about working
with both sides and finding compromise
he's talked about bipartisanship it's
something the left told him they didn't
like about him during the campaign but
he sold himself as a moderate who would
find bipartisan solutions
the washington post says this he is now
seeking to redefine
bipartisanship to hear president biden
and his team tell it
a successful bipartisan bill need not
attract a single republican vote
biden pushed his 1.9 trillion dollar
coveted relief bill through the senate
with the support of all 50 democrats and
neri a republican
yet later declared it a resounding
bipartisan triumph i mean
it seems like we have a lot of language
going on with uh or games going on with
lane
language and semantics uh the president
doesn't seem to be immune from that uh
no republican votes and yet a bipartisan
victory
yeah i think that joe biden is not a
vigorous 78 and there's a lot of people
who he has outsourced this
responsibility that have this agenda but
let's be clear we're talking about a joe
biden that never existed
joe biden throughout his career was not
a uniter he was a person that destroyed
robert bork and clarence thomas in their
confirmation hearings
this was a guy when it was popular was a
strong
supporter of southern races like james
eastland
and he was a good friend of robert byrd
and he said a lot of divisive things i
mean
if you take any politician the last 20
years and you
collate what they said on race whether
it's you ain't black or
junky or barack obama is the first uh
clean articulate black man or this donut
shop is full of indians he said a lot of
polarizing things so
this idea of good old joel from scranton
was a media construct
that was resurrected in the campaign
because michael bloomberg the
compromised uniters supposedly flamed
out
and they were stuck with a bunch of hard
left candidates
so they said well there's no joe that
didn't really do well but we're going to
resurrect him and say he's uniter
but joe was never a uniter he was always
a divisive character and he'd run twice
before
and hadn't been successful because he
was neither honest
about his campaign he had to draw uh
drop out or he was polarizing
and so this myth that he's a uniter
nobody i don't think any of us believed
it
it was a media creation and so when he
revealed what he's really
about it's a return to who he is
he always was that way well this
conversation about whether something is
bipartisan without getting a single
republican vote
is uh further illustrative of where we
may be going
plenty of executive action and that is
president's purview to use it
victor davis hanson always great to have
you visit with us thank you sir
thank you