After four years, it was oddly jarring to hear a Presidential speech that was not boastful, bitter or brash. One where the person delivering it didn’t drift off the prompter into grievances, name calling and racial slurs.
And one where the aim was to comfort the audience, rather than reward the speaker. Joe Biden knew that before he got to fixing healthcare, social security - even fighting a rampaging pandemic - he needed to at least put a plaster over a wound in the United States. "Let this grim era of demonisation in America begin to end here and now,” Biden said.
Speaking directly to Trump voters, he drew a line under the last four years, saying: “Let’s give each other a chance.” Perhaps optimistic, but you can’t say he didn’t try.
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