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I Heard My Dad In Joe Biden’s Inauguration Speech
In President Biden’s appeal to common sense and reason…
In particular, these words:
“Through Civil War, The Great Depression, World War, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifices, and setbacks, our better angels have always prevailed. In each of these moments, enough of us — enough of us — have come together to carry all of us forward, and we can do that now.”
You can read the entirety of President Biden’s inaugural address by clicking here, or you can watch it by clicking here.
My dad didn’t live to see Donald Trump win. He proudly voted for President Obama twice, the second time insisting I take him to his local polling place even though he was nearing 90 and barely able to walk, and could’ve easily done an absentee ballot. (The poll workers whispered to me: “God bless him”.) I always think: Trump would’ve liked that.
And he assured me, many times throughout my childhood, and even my adulthood that domestic phenomenons like George Wallace or international ones like Vladimir Putin, could only be a fleeting threat here; could never really establish bases of power in this country because of something that makes America different, and Americans extraordinary. And that is our constitution: both literally, and our Constitution. And…
