Biden News: President Biden presents Cabinet Reliable and boring

Biden News: President Biden presents Cabinet Reliable and boring

President Elect Joe Biden presents his chosen members for his parliament, reported by Biden News

Biden News: There has been speculation about the occupation of the future US government for weeks - now the soon-to-be US President Biden has presented his cabinet. When filling the positions, he relied on diversity and above all experience.

In the end, Joe Biden addressed the Americans directly: "This team will make us proud to be Americans," promised the future president. It demonstrates his main belief that America is strongest when it works with its allies. It reflects that America is back and ready to lead the world.

Antony Blinken, who is due to become Foreign Minister in January, embodies this philosophy. The 58-year-old grew up in Paris, among other places, he comes from an immigrant family, and he worked under President Obama and is an important advisor to Joe Biden. America now needs cooperation and confidence, he said, because "America, if it is best, still has the greatest opportunity of any nation to bring others together and face the challenges of the time."

Trump, Handover in the USA can begin

Trump News - After weeks of the blockade, Trump instructed his team to cooperate with Biden.

Lots of established people, lots of premieres

Even if everyone in Biden's team is established and has been working in their field for decades, there are still many premieres. Alejandro Mayorkas, about 60 years old, born in Cuba, will be the first Latino to ever take on the post of Minister of Homeland Security. Avril Haines will be the first woman to coordinate the work of the US intelligence services.

Plus, John Kerry, the prior Secretary of State, will fill the newly created post of Special Envoy on Climate Change, a key issue for Joe Biden. On the first day of his term in office, he wants to lead the USA back into the Paris climate agreement. But the deal alone is not enough, said Kerry. He sees an exciting path ahead of him. Climate protection means creating millions of jobs for the middle class, cleaner air and oceans, and healthier lives for people around the world.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield will represent the USA at the United Nations. She recalled that advancement like hers was only possible in the United States - "where life can be hard and cruel, but where there is hope in conflict and assurance in our thoughts," stated the diplomat and African American who has been since 35 years in the Foreign Ministry.

Jake Sullivan, who at 43 years old will be one of the youngest to take on this post, will serve as National Security Advisor.

Alliances are highlighted

What was noticeable was the consistently respectful tone, which was different from that of the outgoing President Trump. Much has been said about allies and alliances, about a sense of duty and humility, about thanks to America. She always believed in the nobility of the civil service, said Kamala Harris, the future vice president. "These Americans personify him."

Janet Yellen was not there. According to Biden News reports, the 74-year-old former head of the Fed will become finance minister. She will be the first female to hold this possession.

Joe Biden News: Pause for breath

Joe Biden News: In two months, without Donald Trump, Joe Biden will give an acceptance speech to the acceptable audience, and we can devote ourselves to the question that has lain in the background for four years: where is American democracy, and where is democracy in the world? Since 2016, Trump's wild theatre has forced attention to the direct damage he caused to the American and international system. The last few weeks in particular: breaking existing norms and brushing against a seizure of power have never been more intense. But now that the centre is holding on, the question of what this means in the long term becomes more urgent.

The Democratic Party is now mainly concerned with the question of whether the election strategy was too progressive or not progressive enough. That's a short-term question, based on the assumption that Biden's presidency is going to be a restoration of American democracy, and that Trump was a freak accident. More important than Democratic strategy is the question of what made Trump's dangerous presidency possible. A number of books have been written about this. They usually assumed that Americans had voted for Trump out of frustration and misunderstood self-interest and that this could be remedied with good policy. But the fact that Trump received 12 million more votes than in 2016, despite a fairly disastrous and chaotic presidency, suggests otherwise.

More interesting analyzes saw Trump as a glaring but also temporary danger, mainly distracting from long-term problems. One author with such a longer view was the economist Dani Rodrik. He has long pointed to the fundamental undermining of democracy in the US and other Western countries by the underlying economic reality: the fact that centre-left and centre-right parties have no answer to 'the burning question of our time: where should good jobs come from? '

Biden News - Renewing democracy is more than just installing Biden

According to Rodrik, the Democrats now have "four years of breathing space" before that question returns, he wrote in a post-election column. About everyone is aware that many jobs are becoming more precarious in Western countries, while the economic and political consensus remains that economic growth and a booming stock market, aided by monetary pumping, will make things right. Biden News - While Trump did not change that economic reality, his electoral success did illustrate how many American voters are motivated by it. Their hostility to the whole system will not go away with a new president serving mostly consumers, not workers.

Trump's success also endorsed the threat that new media and new forms of opinion pose to democracy. Twitter and Facebook make old-style politics impossible: politics as a craft, and the idea of ​​representation of the people through elections instead of trending and the direct satisfaction of discontent. Moreover, Joe Biden News reinforce the trend from party politics to politics as a person-related movement. And that's how our democracy dies, political scientist David Runciman predicted in How Democracy Dies, not an old-style coup d'état. American democracy will survive Trump, but not his example.

Runciman also described a third fundamental problem: how democracy is being eroded in stages. Trump's daily violation of democratic standards was not very isolated, but badly because of the trend. We have an appalling lack of imagination about the end of democracy, says Runciman: we always look back to the 1930s. But look further, to ancient Greece, or the Roman Republic, and you see the danger of political norm blurring. The end is not Haters, but a long series of men who continue to erode the applicable norms and rules, until nothing remains but an empty shell.

Trump News and Trump told uncomfortable truths about corruption and oligarchy, and while he embodied those problems himself, the dissatisfaction with them doesn't go away when he leaves the property slamming the doors. Democracy renewal, in the US and Europe, is certainly possible, but it goes far beyond installing Biden. It requires a commitment to democracy and the issues affecting voters, from the next job contract to climate change. Biden will say he will. Let's hope he can.