6, it became clear the nation just wasn’t in a mood to put the unum back in our pluribus. From our inability to come together to fight the coronavirus, or unify in defense of our basic democratic institutions after Jan.
In 2021 - the first year of the Biden presidency - the nation just seemed to want to double down on divisiveness.
And his friends from both sides of the aisle were no help, when he really needed somebody. Maybe it’s Covid-19, maybe it’s the algorithms that appear to have permanently polarized our politics, but Biden’s calls for unity and compromise seem like a sweet Beatles tune sung by a nostalgic old guy from a bygone era. But that song was perhaps a bit too optimistic for the Biden agenda, especially when considering who these “friends” are.ĭuring his first year in office, Biden’s call to our better angels had a hard time cutting through the din. If ever there was a time to come together as a country, this was it, and Biden was the kind of guy who could bridge the partisan divide, bring some civility back to Washington and unify a beleaguered county. After all, we were in the midst of a historic global pandemic that had brought the economy to a dead stop. deal-maker, meant he could come into the White House and get stuff done. Biden thought his many old friends on both sides of the aisle in the Senate, as well as his decades of experience as a D.C.
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