Commentary G.K. Chesterton somewhere observed that an inconvenience, looked at in the right spirit, is an adventure, not an inconvenience. Marcus Aurelius, who encountered not a few inconveniences in the course of his reign, would doubtless have approved of that bit of stoical wisdom. And I suppose journalists, regardless of political filiation, will come to regard our version of Paul von Hindenburg—Joe “Big Guy” Biden—as a sort of blessing. I do not, by the way, mean to be unfair to Hindenburg. I know that there is nothing martial about the guy who is set to move into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, notwithstanding his turning Washington, D.C. into an armed camp for his largely virtual inauguration: A wall around the Capitol, razor wire everywhere, 21,000 troops. It’s just that in the early 1930s Hindenburg was aged and increasingly feckless and his successor—well, the less said about that the better. Maybe a mot …
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