If Elected, Joe Biden will have to Create a Team that will Govern

In the increasing likelihood Joe Biden becomes President of the United States on January 20, 2021, he will not be short on examples of what and what not to do when taking charge of the country.

Twentieth-Century United States History provides two such examples from Democratic Presidents.  Margaret McMillan’s 1919, Roberta Strauss Feuerlich’s America’s Reign of Terror David Fromkin’s In the Time of the Americans are highly recommended historical works that delve into these Presidencies more in-depth.

When the United States entered World War One in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson, a leader who, like his fellow KKK fan currently occupying the White House, thought he was God’s Gift for the times, pursued reactionary policies that would make George W. Bush and Donald Trump envious. His Administration enacted legislation like the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 that put anti-war critics such as Socialist Presidential Candidate Eugene Debbs in jail. He created an early form of Fox Island, the propaganda machine called the Committee on Public Information that did not exactly promote truth at all costs.

He also pursued a partisan leadership structure in the war. He did not include any leading Republicans of the day in either his Administration nor invite any to be part of his delegation to the Peace Conferences in France in 1919.

He also took a take it or leave it to approach to ratifying the Treaty of Versailles (which included United States membership in the League of Nations) in the Senate. The Senate, in Republican hands, ultimately decided to leave it.

If Trump read history, one could say he learned from Wilson’s example.

Franklin Roosevelt, who served in the Wilson Administration as an Undersecretary of the Navy, did withness and learn from Wilson’s missteps.

In the leadup to World War Two, Roosevelt recruited both leading Democrats and Republicans (Henry Stimson and William Bill Donovan) to serve in his Administration’s fight against Fascism.

While not all of Roosevelts policies, like his internment of Japanese American citizens, were right or insightful, his bipartisan outreach helped pave the way for the Postwar order that included the United States joining the United Nations.

That is mostly the historical example Biden should follow along with the experience of what worked well in the Obama Administration (including its reaction to the Ebola pandemic and other public health emergencies.)

Biden should pick a bipartisan progressive-minded team, starting with his Vice President (you can include Senator Tammy Baldwin and Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms to the list of Veepstakes contenders) that will be ready to govern and make up for the reactionary states take the lead and pay the bill approach of the Trump Administration and its allies.

Writers like Thomas Friedman of the New York Times and Brent Budowsky of The Hill have already penned articles, envisioning this approach and the potential recruits Biden, if he wins in November, should select to serve in his Administration.

A Bipartisan Administration dedicated to healing partisan wounds, enacting forward legislation in health care, infrastructure, and green energy, and moving the country forward is exactly the cure the country needs from the Coronavirus of American Politics otherwise known as the Trump Administration.

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