{"id":156338,"date":"2021-01-16T21:33:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T18:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/joe-bidens-presidency-could-make-america-normal-again\/"},"modified":"2021-01-16T21:33:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T18:33:49","slug":"joe-bidens-presidency-could-make-america-normal-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-bidens-presidency-could-make-america-normal-again\/","title":{"rendered":"#Joe Biden’s presidency could make America normal again"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Joe Biden’s presidency could make America normal again<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Our next president, Joe Biden, \u201cwill restore a bunch of norms,\u201d vowed<\/a> Barack Obama in November. And norms are exactly what America wants back. After boy genius Bill Clinton, blueblood heir to power George W. Bush, visionary hope-and-change merchant Barack Obama and disruptor Donald Trump, Joe Biden promises to be America\u2019s first normie president \u2014 a guy whose pitch is, \u201cI\u2019m average.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Joe Biden walks into the barroom that is America like the rumpled fat man on the \u201980s sitcom and everyone present joyously cries out, \u201cNorm(ie)!\u201d After the convulsions of the World War I era, and a very abnormal presidency held by Woodrow Wilson, the next president, Warren G. Harding, famously promised a Return to Normalcy. Biden is taking over because he represents \u201cNormalcy 2: The Re-Normening.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

What people want from Washington is to relax its grip on our consciousness so that we can resume spending our days talking about normal, non-Washington stuff, like what should happ<\/a>en in the \u201cSex and the City\u201d reboot, which Kardashian Kanye West will marry next, and whether Armie Hammer is a cannibal. If all goes well, instead of staying up late doomscrolling on our phones, we\u2019ll be normscrolling: Hey, did you hear Joe Biden is bringing two dogs with him to the White House? That\u2019s normal! Americans will have so little reason to stay up late looking at our phones that there will be a sex surge: a bonk boom, a shag tsunami, a national nooky party like the end of \u201cReturn of the Jedi\u201d except this time with naughty teddy bears. Late in 2021 about 40 million babies will be born, and they\u2019ll all be named Norm. Even the girls.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Neither of them advertises this, but Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden have been friends for decades.<\/figcaption>
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Accompanying this New Wave of Norminess is a corollary: Biden can\u2019t be Mister Norm if he does a bunch of stuff that makes people angry. Turning over policy to the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezites would not be normal. Biden\u2019s half-hearted plans for a Green New Deal, a plethora of social<\/a>-justice programs and opening up the borders to anyone claiming to be a refugee would not be normal. They\u2019re divisive, they make people quarrel and shout, they will drive Americans right back to the partisan news<\/a> channels and the toxic social-media sites.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some old Washington hands have speculated that Biden would have been absolutely fine with a Senate controlled by Mitch McConnell \u2014 neither of them advertises this, but the two of them have been friends since forever \u2014 because it would have given him a perfect excuse to be a ceremonial president, the kind of guy who calls a lid at 9 a.m. and retires to his basement to talk about the good ol\u2019 days and watch reruns of \u201cThe Andy Griffith Show.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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To keep achieve normalcy, Biden needs to prevent the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezites from gaining too much power.<\/figcaption>
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As it is, with the Georgia Democrats pulling off the double upset, giving Dems the narrowest possible majority in the Senate to go with an almost equally anorexic majority in the House, the Donkey Party is braying that \u201cWe have unified control of the government for the first time in a decade.\u201d Only technically. Nobody has ever rammed through much of anything with 50 Senators. A 50-50 Senate is a sign that the country is evenly split. If the Senate is ordered to neither go one way nor the other, that\u2019s tantamount to saying: Stay put.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Biden himself said<\/a>, the day after the election, \u201cThe presidency itself is not a partisan institution. It\u2019s the one office in this nation that represents everyone, and it demands a duty of care for all Americans. That is precisely what I will do.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Biden could be the most popular president since post-9\/11 George W. Bush if he sticks to thinking that he represents everyone, not just the small percentage that constitutes the activist wing of the Democratic Party. And what does \u201ceveryone\u201d want? Nothing except an end to the Age of COVID. With our first normie president, maybe we can all just get back to business as usual.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kyle Smith is critic-at-large at National Review.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n