Taking Stock of the Biden Presidency (w/ Branko Marcetic)
Current Affairs11 Huhti 2025

Taking Stock of the Biden Presidency (w/ Branko Marcetic)

🦩 This episode originally aired on February 21, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!

Joe Biden is gone, but we are now living with the consequences of Biden's presidency, and it's important in this moment to look back over the last four years and try to understand what exactly happened to get us to this point. Was Biden's presidency doomed from the start? Which of the many competing narratives about it is true? Was it an America-wrecking catastrophe, as Trump says, or an underrated golden age, as Biden's defenders would have it?

We are joined for this assessment by the world's leading Bidenologist, Branko Marcetic, who is the author of the 2020 book Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden, and has written a two-part assessment of the Biden presidency for Jacobin, Part I being on domestic policy and Part II being on foreign policy. Branko recounts the political history of the last four years, explaining how it all went wrong and we ended up back at another Trump presidency.

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