Our next president, Joe Biden, will “restore a lot of rules,” Barack Obama promised in November. And the rules are exactly what the United States wants. After the genius of the boy Bill Clinton, heir to the blue blood in 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 Norman American president, a boy who has the tone: “.
On Wednesday, Joe Biden walks into the bar that is America, like the fat, ruined man from the 80s sitcom and everyone in attendance shouts happily, “Norma (that is)!” After the convulsions of the First World War era and a very abnormal presidency of Woodrow Wilson, the next president, Warren G. Harding, promised the famous return to normalcy. Biden takes over because it represents “Normalcy 2: Re-normalization.”
What people want from Washington is to relax our consciousness so we can continue the days talking about normal things that are not Washington, like what should happen in the resumption of “Sex and the City,” with which will marry Kardashian Kanye West then, and if Armie Hammer is a cannibal. If all goes well, instead of staying up late in the afternoon, tracking our phones, we’ll do a regulatory follow-up: Did you hear Joe Biden bring two dogs with him to the White House? This is normal! Americans will have so little reason to stay up late looking at our phones that there will be a sexual surge: a boom boom, a shag tsunami, a cornered national holiday like the end of “Return of the Jedi,” except this time with naughty teddy bears. By the end of 2021 about 40 million babies will be born and all will be called Norm. Even the girls.
Accompanying this new wave of normalcy is a corollary: Biden can’t be Mister Norm if he does a lot of things that make people angry. Transmitting politics to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezites would not be normal. Biden’s selfless plans for an ecological New Deal, a lot of social justice programs and opening borders to anyone who claims to be a refugee would not be normal. They are dividers, they make people mingle and shout, which will lead Americans to partisan news channels and toxic social media sites.
Some old Washington hands have speculated that Biden would have been absolutely fine with a Senate-controlled Mitch McConnell (neither announces it, but the two have always been friends) because he would have given her a perfect excuse to be president of the ceremony. , the guy who plays at 9am and retires to the basement to talk about the good old days and watch the rehearsals of “The Andy Griffith Show.”
Similarly, with the Georgia Democrats ending the double disgust, giving Dems the narrowest possible majority in the Senate to go with an almost equally anorexic majority in the House, the Donkey Party says “We have controlled the government unified for the first time in a decade “. Only technically. No one has ever gone through anything with 50 senators. A 50-50 Senate is a sign that the country is evenly divided. If the Senate is ordered not to go for either, this is tantamount to saying:
Biden himself dit, the day after the elections, “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 the most popular president since post-11/11 George W. Bush if he just thinks 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 regulatory president, maybe we can all get back to work as usual.
Kyle Smith is a general reviewer at National Review.