Biden Is Projected To Be The President-Elect. Here’s How It All Went Down.

To that point, Sarah, on how much of a snap back to normal there will be. Here’s pretty-run-of-the-mill Republican Sen. Marco Rubio:

We’re not getting a snap back.

There is no going back to normal, Sarah. Everyone says they want politicians to work together and cooperate. But when you push people on that, what they really want is the other party to compromise. And therein lies the rub.

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.”