I was considering writing about the usual Wrong-Wing Evil, or about all that we can look forward to accomplishing in January, but no, it is better to take the Middle Way, and look at the steps immediately before us. Start with the Mourning in America ad, from the Lincoln Project.
Joe Biden is coming out of a quiet period, when he followed the maxims of Napoleon and Sunzi:
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a fatal error.
When your enemy is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him.
Rejoice with me at this serious Good News.
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Republished to several more climate-related groups, and also to Political Language and Messaging.
I hope that AOC can be the Frances Perkins of the new Administration. When FDR got into office, he was willing to give the country his New Deal, but he had no idea how to go about it. Perkins invented most of the well-known New Deal programs from her position as the first woman to be a Cabinet member, Secretary of Labor.