Joe Biden's anti-revolution takes shape

How the rhetoric of unity is already hamstringing the next president

Joe Biden.
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The outlines of a Biden administration are taking shape. Over the last week or so, a Biden staffer apologized for referring to Republicans as "f**kers" and calling Mitch McConnell "terrible," the transition team is reportedly worried they'll have to fire thousands of Trump supporters in the federal bureaucracy, and Biden is starting to back away from his promises to roll back Trump's refugee concentration camps.

In short, Biden is hesitating to take even modest measures necessary to restore the totally inadequate pre-Trump status quo. Who better to manage a crumbling nation with an advanced case of imperial decline than this guy?

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.