President Joe Biden’s election was heralded as the restoration of civility to the White House, if not American public life.
Media accounts of Biden’s inauguration frequently contrasted him with former President Donald Trump on this score. The Associated Press dubbed the event an “abrupt pivot to civility in post-Trump era.” The Des Moines Register’s editorial board later declared Biden’s first 100 days in office “brought good policy, compassion and civility.”“We can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbors,” Biden said in his inaugural address. “We can treat each other with dignity and respect.
In that same polling average, not a single major national political leader is viewed favorably by a majority. Most are underwater by double digits, with the exception of two — Gov. Ron DeSantis and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — the public is still getting to know. Every presidential election since 2000, the year of the Florida recounts, hanging chads, and Bush v. Gore Supreme Court decision, has been relatively close. Barack Obama in 2008 had the best showing in that time period and he received less than 53% of the national popular vote. The defeated candidates in 2000, 2004, 2016, and 2020 to varying degrees cast doubt on their losses, with Trump pushing it the furthest with violent results.
Years after Obama mocked the pundits who “like to slice-and-dice our country into red states and blue states,” there is some evidence from interstate migration patterns that the people are doing the slicing and dicing themselves. Democrats who were thinking of moving were nearly twice as likely to go to a blue state than a red or swing state, the Axios/Ipsos Two Americas Index found, while an outright majority of Republicans stated a preference for red states.
But Biden’s ability to restore civility was always exaggerated. He ended his first presidential campaign in 1987 after telling a voter, “I think I have a much higher IQ than you, I suspect,” and then proceeding to tell multiple lies about his academic record. Early in his most recent White House bid, he called a voter a “damn liar.” While running for reelection as vice president, Biden told a heavily black audience that the Republican ticket was going to “put y’all back in chains.
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