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Will the opportunities afforded by the defeat of the odious Trump administration be wasted by a Democratic Party that refuses to countenance meaningful change, asks ZOLTAN ZIGEDY

ONE month after President Joe Biden’s inauguration, a crushing sense of deja vu is settling in, an unsettling feeling that we have seen this all before. 

Key campaign issues that Biden stood by are now diluted, postponed or simply neglected. 

The fate of once urgent issues like the minimum wage, student loan debt, immigrant rights and healthcare reform now seem less pressing, more subject to study, deliberation, bipartisanship or revision. 

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