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The Capitol on the day of Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Inaugural Memories<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It could be the final paragraph of Joe Biden\u2019s inaugural address this coming Wednesday, January 20th<\/sup>.  America, strained in passion has found its \u201cbond of affection\u201d stretched to the breaking point.  The \u201cmystic chords\u201d of our shared memory and history, of battlefields and patriots, our flag and anthem, seem not to be enough to hold us together.  Our \u201cbetter angels\u201d seem absent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I haven\u2019t received an advance copy of the Biden Inaugural Address.  This quote is not from Joe Biden\u2019s text (at least as far as I know).  It\u2019s the closing paragraph of Abraham Lincoln\u2019s first Inaugural, done from the same front portico of the Capitol building.  And like Biden, Lincoln was surrounded by troops. The newly seceded Confederacy loomed close.  Virginia, a bridge away across the Potomac, while still in question at the moment of Lincoln\u2019s speech, but would soon leave the Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Militarization<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

And there\u2019s more in common between Lincoln\u2019s and Biden\u2019s Presidential beginnings.  Lincoln arrived in Washington aboard a special train from Baltimore, whisked through that city in the middle of the night.  A plot to kidnap him was about in the secessionist city, and Lincoln was secreted through.  Biden has travelled from his home in Delaware to Washington DC by train for his entire career.  He planned on doing it again, one more triumphal ride from Wilmington\u2019s Biden Station (yep, he\u2019s been doing it that long) to Union Station by the US Capitol on Monday.  But, like Lincoln, concerns for his security cancelled that journey.  Biden will arrive in Washington on a Marine Helicopter (not Marine One \u2013 only the serving President gets that designation).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protection<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Security in Washington DC is as high as any time since Lincoln was sworn in.  Seven thousand National Guardsmen line the streets and protect the buildings.  Another fourteen thousand will arrive before Inauguration Day, to supplement the Federal police forces and the DC Metro police.  Threats abound on the internet, despite the closing of social media to the insurrectionist mobs.  They are still communicating, plotting, and preparing for their \u201cday\u201d of the QAnon \u201cStorm\u201d.  The National Mall, where thousands always gather to watch the spectacle, is closed.  There will be no argument over whose crowd was bigger, Obama\u2019s, Trump\u2019s or now Biden\u2019s.  Biden loses: the crowd is not allowed to enter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayor Muriel Bowser of Washington has asked folks not to come to DC at all.  There is an evening curfew.  Roads in and around the Capitol building are closed.  Air B&B\u2019s are cancelling their Washington reservations for the inauguration period.  Hotels are cancelling suspicious bookings.  There are no Inaugural Balls, though there will be some \u201cvirtual\u201d concerts.  For those with my musical bent:  Carole King and James Taylor are among the performers.  The other benefit \u2013 it will reduce the spread of COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden Agenda<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The task ahead for the Biden Administration is as daunting as any President has faced since Lincoln.\u00a0\u00a0The economy is slowing crumbling under the weight of the pandemic.\u00a0\u00a0Unemployment numbers are growing, and the temporary reprieve of the last COVID relief package will run out soon.\u00a0\u00a0The \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d infrastructure program might fix that, but there\u2019s COVID to end first. The pandemic itself is growing.\u00a0\u00a0By the time Biden takes the oath of office on Wednesday, more than 400,000 Americans will be dead from the disease.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Civil War death total of 600,000 is not far in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vaccine distribution is far behind the \u201cOperation Warp Speed\u201d goals.  But more insidiously, the entire process of combatting COVID is mired in political tension.  Wear a mask, get the vaccine; support Biden. Don\u2019t wear a mask, refuse the vaccine, support Trump.  With millions of Americans conflating politics and medical science, Biden must find a way to depoliticize the path to recovery, or the pandemic will be prolonged for months, even years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As if not enough, there are the heavy expectations of Democrats: reforming policing, health care, student loans, diversity in government.\u00a0\u00a0And, by the way, don\u2019t forget climate change, and the America\u2019s role in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reunification<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Beyond all of that, our nation is so divided that thousands thought it was \u201cOK\u201d to invade the Capitol building to stop Congress last week.\u00a0\u00a0It takes a paradigm shift:\u00a0\u00a0IF you believe that the Presidential election was stolen, as the President, his minions, and right-wing media claim, then it\u2019s not too far a leap to determine that Congress was the final \u201crigging\u201d of the election.\u00a0\u00a0Sure there were the \u201ccrazies,” from Proud Boys to QAnon to Boogaloo, but there were a lot of folks that honestly thought they needed to \u201cstop the steal\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0The fact that they are misinformed insurrectionists doesn\u2019t change their personal certainty.\u00a0\u00a0Biden needs to combine determined accountability for the acts of insurrection, with the need to bring as much of the nation together as possible.\u00a0\u00a0As Lincoln said, in his second inaugural:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith malice toward none, with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan\u2014to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lincoln never got the chance.  God Speed, Joe Biden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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