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Biden is pushing hard here on the rhetoric of American togetherness and unity. But partisanship is strong, it’s been around longer than Trump, and, as Julia points out, it has an impact on how we perceive reality and what is actually happening. Although maybe this part of the speech should be seen more as a message to Mitch McConnell than to the American people — “It’s time to stop blocking each other politically for points.”

In the past, Sarah, urges for unity often came from the candidate who conceded. That’s traditionally part of a concession speech: Get behind our president, work together. But I don’t know if we’ll get that from Trump.

Something you’d mentioned earlier, Julia, was whether Biden’s appeals to bipartisanship or red states and blue states would ring hollow. It’s hard to tell in the moment here, of course, but it is something I wonder about. Is someone who voted for Trump even watching this? Can politics go back to “normal’? I’m not so sure.