Alas, Joe Biden’s optimistic rhetoric hails from an earlier American era, in which a sitting president didn’t goad his supporters into embracing the fiction that a national election was a big fix. So after raging pro-Trump insurrectionists breached the Capitol by breaking windows with riot shields and ramming crowd control barriers through the doors, all the while chanting, “Stop the steal!”, Biden insisted on Wednesday “This isn’t who we are.”But it is who we are. At least in part, an incensed mob living in an alternative reality and smashing up a building that in times past tourists from all over the world have queued up reverently to visit? That is transparently, demonstrably, who many Americans are. SponsoredI was born in the late 1950s.

Source: The Times January 07, 2021 20:26 UTC