Now that the lurid madhouse of Donald Trump’s presidency has come to its downfall in convulsions of mass violence and insurrection, the painstaking work of restoring America’s shattered confidence in itself isn’t even the steepest uphill climb facing Trump’s creaky 78-year-old successor from Scranton, Penn., the genial and grandfatherly Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
Biden’s greater task involves the revival of global democratic alliances and rehabilitating democracy’s stature in the world as the most enlightened way to order human affairs. Clear majorities in the United States and Western Europe now say they’re dissatisfied with democracy, which is now in its 15th year …read more
Source:: Macleans
