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The Hello and welcome to behind the news. My name is Doug Henwood. All manner of unorthodoxy today

appropriate to the dislocations of year-end. Bronco Marchettish, who wrote a book about Joe Biden,

takes a look at his time in office, with a footnote on his broadcast guru Joe Scarborough.

We'll hear a bit of an interview from earlier this year in how to do it better, Edwin Ackerman

on Amlo in Mexico. And Santiago Perez will

look at how the social composition of elite colleges in the U.S. has changed little over the course of a

century. Joe Biden is on the way out to be succeeded by an absolute horror. It has not been a

successful term, and those failures have a lot to do with why we're facing Trump. Biden leaves

office with the net approval rating of minus 19, according to 538,

56% disapprove, 37% approve.

There was some initial promise.

Remember when he was going to be the new FDR?

But war, inflation, and deteriorating mental capacity did him in.

Here with a review of the Biden years is the Jacobin columnist

Bronco Morchettich, whose book about him, yesterday's man, was published by Verso in 2020.

Bronco has been writing about the influence of another Joe, Joe Scarborough of MSNBC,

on not only the broad liberal consciousness, but on Biden himself. Bronco Morchetich.

Okay, there are some aspects of Biden's life that do excite some sympathy, the overcoming the

stutter, the loss of his wife and kid in a car accident, just like a week or two after

he'd been elected to the Senate, more recently, Bo's death.

So before we kick him around some, we should probably acknowledge that there are aspects

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