In the months between Barack Obama’s euphoric 2008 election win and his inauguration in January, he surrounded himself with a team of neoliberal economists and Wall Street bankers. As the new Cabinet was being assembled and its agenda set in stone, anyone who raised concerns was promptly told to pipe down and “give the guy a chance.”
And so, despite campaign promises to the contrary, the Obama administration missed the historic opportunity opened by his election and instead grossly failed working people and the planet. We can’t afford to let Joe Biden go down the same path.
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