Opinion: After a year in the White House, Joe Biden’s presidential agenda has stalled and America’s democracy continues to fray. So, how does he regain control?
of Americans believe that violence against the United States is justified. There is growing fear that the Trumpist efforts in swing states to pass new laws that affect not only who can vote, but who can count the vote, is a subversion of democracy that will lead tomay yet break out
over Ukraine, a crisis which would also provoke a bitter debate in the US over “who lost Ukraine?” America would be left weaker, and China’s Xi may conclude that the time to seize Taiwan is sooner – before AUKUS can gel. Biden is not close to a nuclear deal with Iran and Kim Jong-un is off the grid and testing hypersonic missiles.Biden heralded a return to normal, yet the country is anything but.
The better parallel is historian David McCullough’s on the 33d president: “Ambitious by nature, he was never torn by ambition, never tried to appear as something he was not. He stood for common sense, common decency. He spoke the common tongue. As much as any president since Lincoln, he brought to the highest office the language and values of the common American people. He held to the old guidelines: work hard, do your best, speak the truth, assume no airs, trust in God, have no fear.
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