{"id":601101,"date":"2021-07-23T12:20:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T16:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=601101"},"modified":"2021-07-23T12:20:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T16:20:19","slug":"analysis-is-biden-getting-the-willies-on-the-far-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-is-biden-getting-the-willies-on-the-far-left\/","title":{"rendered":"ANALYSIS: Is Biden Getting The Willies On The Far Left?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanalysis-is-biden-getting-the-willies-on-the-far-left%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=601101&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/joe-biden-scaled-e1626893436868.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Throughout his time in office, President Joe Biden has tried to walk a fine line between moderation and the far-left wing of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>On foreign policy issues, Biden pushed back against the rhetoric of far-left members, such as Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s support for Israel, in particular, rankled the more left-leaning parts of his coalition. During May rocket and gunfire exchanges between the long-standing U.S. ally and the terror group Hamas, Biden called then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/12\/biden-netanyahu-israel-turkey-russia-hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">express<\/a> his \u201cunwavering support for Israel\u2019s security and for Israel\u2019s legitimate right to defend itself and its people.\u201d Following the announcement of a ceasefire, Biden again declared that the U.S. \u201c<span id=\"subtitle14\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"14\" data-start=\"2004150\" data-end=\"2006430\">fully supports Israel\u2019s right to defend itself<\/span> <span id=\"subtitle15\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"15\" data-start=\"2006820\" data-end=\"2009670\">against indiscriminate rocket attacks from Hamas<\/span> <span id=\"subtitle16\" class=\"subtitle processed\" data-id=\"16\" data-start=\"2010090\" data-end=\"2011980\">and other Gaza-based terrorist groups<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/26\/hamas-caucus-squad-israel-defense\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slammed<\/a> Israel\u2019s response to Hamas attacks as \u201cterrorism.\u201d Fellow Democrats and \u201cSquad\u201d members Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Missouri Rep. Cori Bush called Israel an \u201capartheid state.\u201d Ocasio-Cortez added that Biden\u2019s support for Israel \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">dehumanize[d] Palestinians [and] impl[ied] the US will look the other way at human rights violations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.826815642458\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Blanket statements like these w\/ little context or acknowledgement of what precipitated this cycle of violence \u2013 namely, the expulsions of Palestinians and attacks on Al Aqsa \u2013 dehumanize Palestinians &amp; imply the US will look the other way at human rights violations. It\u2019s wrong. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/afCgoGdiMG\">https:\/\/t.co\/afCgoGdiMG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1392603318640390151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Cuban protesters flooded the streets of Havana demanding an end to the country\u2019s communist dictatorship, the \u2018Squad\u2019 was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/13\/bernie-sanders-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ilhan-omar-rashida-tlaib-cuba-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">silent<\/a>. When <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/15\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cuba-embargo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/13\/bernie-sanders-blames-us-embargo-communist-cuba-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sanders<\/a> did speak up, they blamed the U.S. embargo for the island\u2019s chronic shortages of goods, not the communist regime.<\/p>\n<p>Biden administration officials initially <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/12\/state-department-official-claims-cuban-protest-about-covid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blamed<\/a> the shortages on COVID-19, with press secretary Jen Psaki at first <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/14\/psaki-refuses-to-say-cubans-fleeing-communism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">declining<\/a> to blame Cuba\u2019s communist form of government for the protests. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/14\/alejandro-mayorkas-haiti-cuba-refugees-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018You Will Not Come\u2019: The US Will Not Accept Refugees Fleeing Cuba Or Haiti By Boat, Mayorkas Says)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few days later, however, Biden condemned communism as \u201ca universally failed system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see socialism as a very useful substitute, but that\u2019s another story,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/15\/joe-biden-communism-cuba-haiti-socialism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">added<\/a>, during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki later <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/15\/jen-psaki-communism-failed-ideology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">described<\/a> communism as \u201ca failed ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden has been more willing to echo the claims of the far-left voices in his party on domestic issues. In particular, Biden and his administration have supported in word and policy practices and ideas associated with CRT.<\/p>\n<p>Although some on the right <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/19\/miguel-cardona-critical-race-theory-federal-grants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed<\/a> victory over a blog post written by Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, which clarified a grant application rule, the Biden administration is still advocating that schools include \u201cprojects that incorporate racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse perspectives\u201d in classroom instruction.<\/p>\n<p>Those projects may \u201ctake into account systemic marginalization, biases, inequities, and discriminatory policy and practice in American history; incorporate racially, ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse perspectives and perspectives on the experience of individuals with disabilities; [and] encourage students to critically analyze the diverse perspectives of historical and contemporary media and its impacts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/13\/jen-psaki-critical-race-theory-1619-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed<\/a> that teaching \u201cthe youth and the future leaders of the country about systemic racism\u201d is \u201cactually responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An executive order signed June 25 will <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/26\/biden-executive-order-crt-diversity-equity-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">require<\/a> all federal government agencies to engage in race-conscious hiring, with the goal of pursuing equity in the workforce. The order also requires race-conscious diversity training, despite the fact that many <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/1948550618780728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">studies<\/a> have shown that such <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2016\/01\/diversity-policies-dont-help-women-or-minorities-and-they-make-white-men-feel-threatened\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trainings<\/a> actually harm race relations.<\/p>\n<p>Some left-wing House Democrats, including Bush, Ocasio-Cortez, Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley, and Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/09\/climate-change-the-squad-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-biden-pramila-jayapal-nancy-pelosi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complain<\/a> that Biden is not going far enough on his infrastructure package, the American Jobs Plan. They <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1D9O8j3cUvdQUXbMlfYSeGP98vKCgGtRi\/view?stream=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">argue<\/a> that \u201cclimate-induced floods,\u201d heat waves, and an oil spill underscore the need for their Green New Deal, and not \u201cbipartisan compromise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden, however, has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/24\/joe-biden-bipartisan-infrastructure-package-without-reconciliation-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">emphasized<\/a> that provisions of the American Jobs Plan that do not make it into a bipartisan compromise will be passed via reconciliation, which requires a simple majority vote in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not just signing the bipartisan bill and forgetting about the rest that I proposed,\u201d he said on June 24. \u201cI proposed a significant piece of legislation in three parts. And all three parts are equally important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader and New York Democrat Chuck Schumer <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/14\/democrats-chuck-schumer-bernie-sanders-infrastructure-budget-reconciliation-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> on July 13 that Democrats would seek to pass a $3.5 trillion budget. It would include funding for free community college, free child care, and a Medicare expansion. Democrats have referred to all of those provisions as \u201chuman infrastructure,\u201d but are non-starters for Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith inflation raging at the highest level in 40 years,\u201d the deal is \u201cwildly out of proportion with the need right now,\u201d Senate Minority Leader and Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/14\/mitch-mcconnell-rips-democrats-3-trillion-budget-deal-infrastructure-reconciliation-package\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">responded<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout his time in office, President Joe Biden has tried to walk a fine line between moderation and the far-left wing of the Democratic Party.On foreign policy issues, Biden pushed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}