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There’s no return to the ‘old normal’
Despite what some commentators might contend, Biden’s election represents no return to the liberal Third Way consensus, writes KEVIN OVENDEN

A RETURN to “normality” — even a “restoration.” Variations on that theme dominated coverage of Joe Biden’s inauguration.
It will have chimed with the immense relief of hundreds of millions of people in and beyond the US at Donald Trump’s ousting.
But among those millions are many, and not only on the radical left, who know full well that it was the “normal” that got us here in the first place.
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