Last Night Is Why Joe Biden Won

Playbook: “Every president is eventually called upon to help us collectively grieve. Joe Biden may be the first president elected to do so.”

“His speech Thursday night had some important policy promises — by May 1 every adult will be eligible for a vaccine and by July Fourth relative normalcy will return.”

“But it is worth taking a moment to dwell on this unique pastoral role of the presidency, if only because it has been absent for the last four years and because Biden is being widely praised for restoring it.”