"President Biden’s State of the Union address on Thursday was about many things, especially a furious energy that countered talk about the limitations of his age. But above all, it marked the final collapse of the reconciliation strategy. It was an acknowledgment that sermons about putting aside our differences are out of touch with the country we have become..." -- E.J. Dionne, Jr., in today's Washington Post, leading off an op/ed about the political reality we face, and the reluctant warrior who has to abandon his natural conciliatory approach to politics in favor of leading an existential war to defend democracy against domestic enemies -- the forces of "resentment, revenge, and retribution."
