FORUM 1: What can we expect from the Biden administration? Brace yourself for big policy changes

First, the Biden administration will use the economic crisis at hand to pursue a domestic policy platform that will be the mirror opposite of the Trump administration’s free-market, federalist program.

Second, in stark contrast to the Trump administration, which focused on a foreign policy agenda of “America First,” the Biden administration will pivot to a globalist policy program, also under the guise of COVID.

Third, it is highly likely that the Biden administration will seek major structural changes to the federal government that could change the electoral prospects for both parties for a generation.

In other words, the Biden administration will prey upon the economic disarray from COVID to seek to undo the biggest accomplishments of the Trump administration while doubling down on progressive policies.

One of the first and foremost features of the Biden administration is its penchant for globalism. This will manifest itself in several ways, namely with regards to climate change.

President-elect Joe Biden has repeatedly said that climate change is an existential threat that will require a global effort akin to World War II. He has already pledged to put the U.S. back into the Paris Climate Accords, which will reduce U.S. competitiveness and undermine our national sovereignty.

The coming Biden administration is also on board with the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset”—a radical, anti-capitalist agenda that is using the COVID crisis to upend capitalism. Biden’s climate czar, John Kerry, is a staunch advocate for the Great Reset and has already said that he will lobby for America’s involvement in it. .

On the foreign policy front, the Biden administration will also re-enter the U.S. into globalist bodies such as the World Health Organization.

In general, after a four-year period of the Trump administration pursuing a foreign policy that sought to maximize American interests, the Biden administration will seek to move in a decidedly globalist direction.

Aside from the wholesale changes to foreign policy courtesy of the incoming administration, we should expect big changes on the domestic policy front too.

Following the Trump administration’s pro-growth economic policies, the Biden administration will seek to redistribute wealth via raising taxes, especially on corporations and the so-called wealthy. Biden is already putting together a massive COVID stimulus package that will increase the size and scope of the federal government, expand government dependence, and add trillions to the national debt.

Alongside the tax hikes and huge spending programs, the Biden administration will increase regulations and bureaucratic red tape. His team has stated that it will pursue a plethora of environmental regulations in the name of climate change. More than likely, it will increase regulations on a host of other industries, including the financial, health care and manufacturing sectors.

Because the Biden administration inherently believes that big government can solve most problems, it will also increase the federal government’s role in several areas that are better left to state and local governments, such as the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine.

Most ominous is the likelihood that the Biden administration will seek structural changes to the federal government that could cement one-party rule for years to come.

There are several items on the table that the Democratic leaders of Congress said they will shoot for, such as adding deep-blue Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico as states. Although the Biden team has not signaled that it favors this, it has not said it would oppose it either.

The new administration also could give its nod of approval to ending the centuries-old Senate filibuster rule, packing the Supreme Court, eliminating the Electoral College, or whatever other schemes the Democrat-controlled Congress decides to pursue.

Very soon, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, marking an abrupt end to the policies of the last four years.

Given the economic and social chaos that has overwhelmed the country in recent months, Biden is entering the Oval Office during a massive crisis, which very well could allow him to do things that would seem unimaginable just a few years ago.

The first 100 days of the Biden administration is likely to be a wild ride. Buckle-up, America.