Our next president, Joe Biden, “will restore a lot of rules,” Barack Obama promised in November. And the rules are exactly what America wants back. After the genius of the boy Bill Clinton, the heir of the blue blood of power George W. Bush, the visionary merchant of hope and change Barack Obama and the disruptor Donald Trump, Joe Biden promises to be the first normal president of America – a guy whose tone is :. ”
On Wednesday, Joe Biden enters the bar room, which is America, like the fat man from the 80’s series and everyone present shouts with joy: “Norm (ie)!” After the turmoil of World War I and a very abnormal presidency held by Woodrow Wilson, the next president, Warren G. Harding, famously promised a return to normalcy. Biden takes control because he represents “Normalcy 2: Re-normalization.”
What the people of Washington want is to relax our consciences so that we can resume our days of talking about normal, non-Washington things, such as what should happen in restarting “Sex and the City,” with who will marry Kardashian Kanye West then and if Armie Hammer is a cannibal. If all goes well, instead of staying awake until the end of time, on our phones, we’ll keep going: Hey, did you hear that Joe Biden brings two dogs with him to the White House? It’s normal! Americans will have so little reason to stay awake until we look at our phones that there will be an increase in sex: a boom boom, a shag tsunami, a national party, as the end of the “Return of the Jedi,” except for this time with naughty teddy bears. By the end of 2021, about 40 million children will be born and all will be named Norm. Even the girls.
Accompanying this new wave of norm is a corollary: Biden cannot be Mister Norm if he does a lot of things that annoy people. Transmitting the policy to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezites would not be normal. Biden’s insufficient plans for a green New Deal, a multitude of social justice programs and opening borders to anyone claiming to be a refugee would not be normal. They are dividers, they make people quarrel and shout, they will lead Americans back to partisan news channels and toxic social networking sites.
Some old Washington hands have speculated that Biden would have been absolutely fine with a Senate controlled by Mitch McConnell – neither of whom announces this, but the two have always been friends – because he would have given her a perfect excuse to be a ceremonial president, the kind of guy who stops at 9 in the morning and retires to the basement to talk about the good old days and watch the reruns of “The Andy Griffith Show.”
Indeed, with Georgia Democrats upsetting the double upset by giving Dems the smallest possible majority in the Senate to go with an almost as anorexic majority in the House, the Donkey Party says, “I have control of the government. unified for the first time in a decade. “Only from a technical point of view. No one has ever managed to do too many things with 50 senators. A 50-50 Senate is a sign that the country is divided equally. If the Senate is ordered not to go one way or the other, that is to say:
Biden himself said, the day after the election, “The presidency itself is not a partisan institution. It is the only office in this nation that represents everyone and demands a duty of care for all Americans. That’s exactly what I’m going to do. ”
Biden could be George W. Bush’s most popular president since 9/11, if he continues to believe that he represents everyone, not just the small percentage who make up the Democratic Party’s activist wing. And what does “everyone” want? Nothing but the end of the COVID Era. With our first normative president, maybe we can all get back to business as usual.
Kyle Smith is a general critic of the National Review.