A few nights ago, my cousin Thomas Spear sighed as he said it: we want a president we don’t have to pay constant attention to.
Yes. A president who we can trust is taking care of the gnarly business of good governance so we can get about our own business. A president who doesn’t produce daily offense in lieu of doing that business.
Imagine, instead of a White House lying and assaulting and battering us every day, how about a White House we don’t even have to read about or think about or get agita over every single day? All that horrible, crazy noise! How about a White House that once again hums rather than screeches for attention?
Maybe the greatest thing about Joe Biden’s remarkably great, restorative presidency is: he gave us peace. Thomas remarked on that, too.
Tomorrow is New York’s first day of early voting. I’ll be doing it at the American Museum of Natural History where I hope for lines, perhaps long ones, of quiet, smiling neighbors with flame in their eyes. The crackle is the only sound I expect to hear.