NOT EVERYBODY CAN BE A CHEERLEADER: Biden owes the Left but can he deliver and still lead effectively?

We’re all fundamentally the same. We want quiet enjoyment, mobility, access to technology, an education that won’t turn us into indentured servants, and the opportunity to find a job that isn’t overly dreadful. We want to live reasonably well in the time we have. And we’re not afraid to work hard to earn that living. But we also want serious men and women in power making good decisions. We want to feel there’s still a semblance of justice and decorum in the country and that we’re being represented. We all generally agree on this no matter our ethnicity or our politics, but even Democrats don’t agree on Joe Biden.

We’re facing social entropy, an economic prison, federal dysfunction, continued pandemic, people chosen not for their skill but for their capacity to be inoffensive, and endless identity strife. Biden didn’t create these things, but he rode them to power. And his transition choices are making us wonder whether they’re firmly on the docket for the next four years. We wonder whether he’s deliberately and unnecessarily trolling the right and mollifying the left with his cabinet picks instead of choosing people who will do the best job possible.

Trolling the right, you say? Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to serve as co-chair of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration.

And with Whitmer as co-chair, this headline doesn’t sound very surprising: Biden inauguration to be 80% virtual, inaugural committee co-chairman says. “Clyburn said that he doesn’t believe President Trump is obligated to go to Biden’s inauguration but added that he believes the president should attend the event.”

That’s a curious statement, considering that in August, John Clyburn blurted out on CNN that “I Feel Very Strongly That [Trump] Is Mussolini, Putin, and Hitler.”