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“True greatness in the political arena comes when moral convictions are brought to bear amid conflicting interests.”

— And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham

Meacham was writing of Lincoln but thinking of Biden. Our president is a man of moral courage whose life has been tested by the fires of experience and deep personal tragedy. The new leader of the House is his opposite and his party shall be the last hurrah of a white supremacist South whose racist ideology has spread across an entire nation no longer confined to a specific location. It is an enslaving ideology that seeks minority control over America and is an engine of fear and death.

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