Your job is to save the USA WITHOUT destroying capitalism. What would you do? What can you do? Basically—how can you make things like they were during Obama’s presidency?
As a lib my first thought would be: “implement universal health care.” But wouldn’t it be struck down immediately by the SCOTUS? Wouldn’t the health insurance companies just overthrow you? Won’t the corporate press immediately start treating you like Bernie (or even worse) in order to turn the populace against you?
Please discuss. Also I am not Biden looking for ideas. Nor do I work in the White House.
Best answer I’ve seen so far. The only way you can convince enough Americans to support you is to dial up the xenophobia. And this is actually what many presidents already do. (Is Obama the only recent exception?) Except they just dial up the xenophobia for support; they don’t actually use that support to improve anything. One side effect is pogroms against anyone who looks even vaguely Asian.
I’ll pass this one up to Joe.
The other thing I'd add is some sort of direct cash payment to Americans a la covidbux. Not something that would be regular since again the rest of the government would stop it, but something close to W Bush's rhetoric on early tax returns after 9/11. People need money in their pocket for capitalism to run.