Nothing so perfectly captures the distinction betwen the chattering class and everyday Americans as this piece.
While normal people worry about paying their bills and their kids' educations, Rubin et al are relieved that our new president can act sufficiently sad for her liking.
While normal people worry about paying their bills and their kids' educations, Rubin et al are relieved that our new president can act sufficiently sad for her liking.
https://twitter.com/JRubinBlogger/status/1364248290091499521
This is also jarringly ahistorical. Whatever else you may think of Lincoln, it's revisionist to say that he provided "comfort for a national tragedy" when he **was assassinnated** while people **were still fighting the Civil War**
And, conversely, it's silly to say that Biden is providing comfort in any meaningful way now (although hopefully he will soon! that would be great! and he seems well-suited!) - unless somehow this speech has comforted the whole country alongside Rubin (I'm skeptical)
A far better example than either of these would be Bush in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, but of course, if that were the case, there would be no op-ed. Hell, even FDR makes a lot more sense.
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