“Like Lincoln, Biden comes to power at a time when a country is torn between conflicting visions of reality and identity”. So says US historian, Jon Meacham, who contributed to the Biden inaugural address.
This is just one example of the kind of hyperbole from the media and commentators generally in greeting the new administration in Washington.
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