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Biden Is No FDR, Just a Business-As-Usual Democrat
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
03 May 2021
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Margaret Kimberley · Biden Is No FDR, Just a Business-As-Usual Democrat

Far from the incarnation of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joe Biden is the usual corporate Democrat, said veteran activist Margaret Flowers, of Popular Resistance. Biden “throws more money at a failed healthcare system,” and on foreign policy he “continues the economic wars and expands military operations in the Middle East, and surrounding China and antagonizing Russia,” said Flowers.

Corporate Democrats

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