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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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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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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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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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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