“Too much of what is happening today in our country is not normal,” Joe Biden said, in a speech last week. The statement was both correct and wildly understated, Susan B. Glasser writes.
, will be enough to overcome the odds in November. As for Republicans, they surely would prefer to talk about the country’s sour mood, high inflation, and wavering economy under Biden, but they remain hooked on Trump—and Trump was never going to make the election about anything but himself. He won’t move on from 2020, so they can’t move on from 2020.
In watching the awkward squirming and instant blame-shifting, it can be easy to forget that this is hardly standard-issue campaign rhetoric—from either side. Presidents do not generally accuse the other party of attempting to eviscerate democracy, of defying the rule of law itself. But nor have they had to. “You can’t love your country only when you win,” Biden said, which is no longer the self-evident fact about America that it used to be.
“Too much of what is happening today in our country is not normal,” Biden said, early in his speech, a statement that was both correct and wildly understated. That longing for “normal” is something I have heard often expressed in Washington over these past few Trump-dominated years in American politics, with all the former President’s bizarre Oval Office rants and his and his followers’ willingness to torch even the most long-standing American traditions.
. Arriving in Moscow a decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union, I often heard Russians I interviewed complaining about the upending of their world, with the attendant economic and social collapse, in ways that were strikingly similar to the complaints of many Americans today. Where we in the West
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