The Raging Fire Part 1: A Separation
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Jason Killmeyer
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Posted: Jan 31, 2021 12:01 AM


The Raging Fire Part 1: A Separation


Joe Biden’s inability to bring about the unity he espouses will only be partially his fault. If his goal is unity, his approach so far is wholly insufficient. To see this, we need not demonize or castigate him. It’s simply to recognize that he is average and that these are exceptional times. We live in a populist era, with a series of rising radical movements sweeping the country. The politicians aren’t to blame for that, the people are. The people brought Trump into office. The people took Bernie Sanders from mediocrity to hallowed meme. The people rewarded "The Resistance" and the "Occupyers." Politicians can’t contain this era of rough populism and, this is important, nor is it their responsibility to.

As we’ve seen in just the past few days, it is likely that the purpose of the talk of unity is as a rhetorical cudgel, one that will be used to hammer Republicans in a few months as Biden explains why he’s been forced to move from executive orders to the kind of invented and ahistorical executive actions Obama pioneered. Or to support destabilizing democracy reform proposals after his message of unity couldn’t break through Republican – welcome back a word that has had a four-year break – intransigence, thus leaving no other choice but to move in a direction he’ll describe as forward.

I’m not writing this piece to dunk on the exposure of Biden as a committed partisan. Instead, I’m arguing that even if we do give Joe Biden the credibility he asks for, if we take him at his word that he really does want to unify the country, and he even manages to avoid the executive vices above, we still are forced to conclude that when it comes to unity, we won’t get there from here.

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