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What Joe Biden Can Do

Lead.

Eric J Scholl
7 min readNov 24, 2020

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Look, I’ve never made a secret of the fact that I don’t think Donald Trump is a true leader. No doubt he’s got many devoted followers. So you may feel that in itself proves me wrong, and you may be right.

But anyone I’ve come across in my life who’s impressed me as a true leader is all about building people up. Trump is only about belittling people and tearing them down, then letting his followers revel in his enemies’ demise as their only reward.

Nonetheless, Trump will have a legacy. A lot of it will have to do with cracking down on immigration, legal and illegal. Yet Trump never got any kind of immigration legislation passed, even when Republicans had control of the Senate, the House, and the White House.

So everything he did with that: from family separation, to finessing money to get “the wall” started, he accomplished through a combination of Executive Orders, lawsuits, and Tweets.

Now, Joe Biden has said he’s not going to rule by Executive Order, and he’s actually going to try to work things out with Republicans. Control of the Senate is still up in the air and will be until January, where two simultaneous run off elections in Georgia will determine the balance.

If Republicans were to keep control of the Senate, would Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell go

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Eric J Scholl

Peabody award winning journalist. Streaming media pioneer. Played @ CBGB back in the day. Editor-In-Chief "The Chaos Report" www.thechaosreport.com