The Technicolor Normalcy of Biden's Inauguration
The Atlantic The colorful and joyful ceremony didn’t feel like a crisis-era bureaucratic procedure. January 21, 2021 American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol.Patrick Semansky / Pool via REUTERS Everyone knows that Joe Biden’s presidential aesthetic is purposefully boring: He’s promising a national nap time after Donald Trump’s violent four-year kegger. “Politics doesn’t have to be a raging fire,” the new president said during his inauguration address today, speaking where insurrectionists had recently carried Molotov ...