President-elect Joe Biden speaks during an event at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Jan. 7, 2021, to announce key nominees for the Justice Department.The chaos on Capitol Hill Wednesday gave shape to two presidencies. It besmirched one of them and it complicated the other.
“This is a very difficult problem for Biden,” said Daniel M. Shea, a Colby College political scientist. “We are in an era when each side views the other as the enemy, when each side thinks the other is a danger to the country, when there is no trust whatsoever. There is a crisis of trust coursing throughout the political system.”
Is a strong Biden administration push for vigorous prosecution of trespassers and fomenters of violence an apt bow to the notion of the rule of law – or would it further inflame the Trump supporters, permitting them to argue that the Biden team wants to make them political prisoners? In less than two weeks, Mr. Biden is to be inaugurated. It was never going to be a graceful transfer of power; now it will be even more fraught. Historians still speak with disdain over how Dwight Eisenhower refused in 1953 to accept Truman’s invitation to have coffee in the White House before riding together to the Capitol for the Eisenhower inauguration. The general wondered out loud “if I can stand sitting next to that guy.
And yet the American carnage that will surely be the greatest historical legacy of the Trump years occurred “right here,” on the grounds of the Capitol where Mr. Biden will take his oath of office and begin a presidential term in challenging circumstances.Often, presidents use their inaugural addresses to set a tone for their administrations. Roosevelt did so in 1933 when he deplored “fear itself,’' and John F.
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