{"id":105089,"date":"2020-11-05T00:04:46","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T21:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/joe-biden-and-the-lure-of-gridlock\/"},"modified":"2020-11-05T00:04:46","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T21:04:46","slug":"joe-biden-and-the-lure-of-gridlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-biden-and-the-lure-of-gridlock\/","title":{"rendered":"#Joe Biden and the lure of gridlock"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Joe Biden and the lure of gridlock<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Paul Wells: Wednesday’s market rallies amount to a bet that a Democrat president and a Republican Senate will guarantee nothing changes in America\n <\/div>\n
\n It\u2019s not a lot safer to write a column today than it was on Tuesday night when I chickened out of filing, but the expectation is growing that Joe Biden will eventually manage a court-proof electoral-college victory over Donald Trump. They were popping virtual champagne bubbles on virtual Wall Street<\/a>, for reasons that are worth investigating.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em> reports that \u201cdrug companies, health insurers and giant technology<\/a> firms\u201d were among the biggest beneficiaries of a rally on the S&P 500. Why? Because they\u2019ve tended to benefit from a federal government that can\u2019t actually do anything. And since the other main feature of Tuesday\u2019s U.S. elections is that the Republicans seem likely to hold the Senate, Biden policies that would specifically make life difficult for drug companies, health insurers and giant technology firms are likely to get nowhere.<\/p>\n

This is excellent news<\/a> if you think the biggest problem in the United States is insufficient corporate profit, and less fantastic news if you are preoccupied with pretty much any other problem in the United States.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Warren, one of the few presidential candidates to give Biden serious trouble in the Democratic primaries, will probably wind up in his cabinet. She\u2019s got a plan to break up big tech<\/a> ready to go. Denied a congressional majority, she won\u2019t get far. Biden ran on a health-care plan<\/a> that was ostentatiously less sweeping than the \u201cMedicare For All\u201d plan favoured by most of his opponents, but its aim was still to have the country spending less of its wealth on health insurance. Now it\u2019s unlikely any part of \u201cBidencare,\u201d as only Biden was calling his plan, will be implemented. And drug companies? A lot of them donated to Biden\u2019s campaign<\/a>, but it wasn\u2019t so much that they expected he\u2019d be great for pharmaceutical research as that they knew he\u2019d try to negotiate lower prices and they hoped to blunt his wrath with a little pre-emptive generosity.<\/p>\n

Taken together, Wednesday\u2019s market rallies amount to a bet that a Democrat president and a Republican Senate will guarantee nothing changes in America. It\u2019s a very big problem if that bet proves correct. If the United States were problem-free on health-care cost, drug cost and the concentration of corporate power, then Donald Trump would never have been elected in the first place.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s app<\/a>eal grew in 2016 until it became essentially synonymous with the Republican vote in general<\/a>. But much of his early support came in places where there aren\u2019t a lot of tax-dodging Manhattan real-estate tycoons: the battered post-industrial midwest, deep south and Appalachian coal country. In their 2020 book Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism<\/em>, Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton trace the deadly mix of suicide, opioid overdose and gun deaths that have actually caused life expectancy among non-Hispanic whites without a college education to decline, durably, for the first time since World War I. One of their findings, which Case discusses here<\/a>, is that high incidence of physical pain correlates with support for Trump. A lot of people voted for an untested outsider for president because they were literally hurting. The president didn\u2019t give a rat\u2019s ass about them, any more than did a fat-cat overclass whose previous solution was to sell them a devastating crisis of opioid deaths<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These people don\u2019t need to be exploited any more. They need effective help through a set of economic and social<\/a>-policy reforms that have been effectively demonized as \u201csocialism\u201d long before they even get tried. Tuesday\u2019s market rally amounts to a bet that American decline will be easier to stomach, and American populations easier to loot, if a bumptious self-promoter like Trump can be surgically excised from the picture. A more demure form of gridlock in the service of systematic exploitation is, apparently, better for business.
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