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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Feb 2021

      1. Biden has gotten a lot of mileage playing off the ambiguity inherent in the word "unity." Thanks to his win and inauguration, unity has become one of the watchwords of American politics, but it's vague enough to contain radically different meanings.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Feb 2021

      2. Unity could mean old fashioned bipartisanship (no longer possible under current polarization but much missed by centrists & evoked by Biden), not antagonizing Republicans (which is how GOP & Fox use it) or rejecting racist extremism (also evoked by Biden).

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Feb 2021

      3. So far, the unity rhetoric has played to Biden's strengths and in fact has helped bolster a robust stimulus (unifying because popular with vast majority of voters!). But GOP will continue to exploit ambiguity as well. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-gop-unity-trap/ …

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        1. Ellston Logan‏ @EllstonLogan 5 Feb 2021
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          This "unity" preoccupation: It really only matters to people who follow DC politics closely. I don't think most voters care. They want to see results.

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        1. Sean Ledwich‏ @SeanLedwich 5 Feb 2021
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          When he spoke of "unity" on Jan. 20 I heard him appealing to the proverbial man-on-the-street...for Americans to find unity in things that bind them and to aspire to compassion and peace. I didn't hear him promising to give the GOP all the legislative concessions they ask for.

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        2. Dale Grauman‏ @DaleGrauman 5 Feb 2021
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          I think I agree with your conclusion in this column, but I don't think there's *necessarily* any conflict between unity-as-comity and unity-as-democracy. I think those things could go together in a world where a dominant segment of the GOP repents.

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        3. Dale Grauman‏ @DaleGrauman 5 Feb 2021
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          That's not going to happen, and Biden probably knows that. But he's generally an optimist, so I'm not surprised that he was holding out hope for it--or at least wanted to be seen as holding out hope.

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