History is in fashion in Joe Biden’s Washington. If you want to flatter the president, call his latest initiative “historic.” If you want him to flatter you, you’d better be working to “remedy past injustices.” Mr. Biden even has a house historian, Jon Meacham, writing his major speeches.
Mr. Biden met earlier this month with a group of historians, including Michael Beschloss, Anne Applebaum and Sean Wilentz. The delegation from the past spent two hours informing the president (then, immediately after, the press) that American democracy is in danger and that our present moment is reminiscent of the lead-up to the Civil War.
