Commentary
In Cleveland on July 6, President Joe Biden repeated something he has often said before—or, rather, he attempted to repeat it before, as seems to happen with increasing frequency, his train of thought was shunted off onto a siding.
“And so, folks, the third reason I ran was to unify the country—to unify it,” he said, according to the White House transcript of his remarks.
“That’s been the harder part of it right now. No, I’m serious. Because we’ve become so divided—so divided in this. But one thing we were divided on when we ran—and, you know, I want to thank Mayor Bibb for the passport into the city. (Applause.) But we—we were divided on the question we’re celebrating today. And, folks, how about actually having a union guy as Secretary of Labor? Isn’t that something? (Applause.)”…