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Joe Biden during his inauguration speech today. (© FlaglerLive via inauguration video) “We do not distrust the future of essential democracy,” Franklin Roosevelt had said in his 1933 inaugural, when democracy was very much in doubt, though for different reasons than it had been in the past few years. The distrust lifted this morning, not coincidentally as that 747 lifted off from Joint Base Andrews, heading, unfortunately for us, to Florida. We can trust in this experiment again, with a man made for the moment as its president. Joe Biden’s words reflected the character of the most unaffected president since Harry Truman. He was in his element, the first-person singular as absent from his speech as it had been the relentless badgering of the last four years, when it displaced everything from empathy to grace to national purpose. “I must put the interest of America first,” words spoken even by Richard Nixon on his last day in the White House, were as foreign to the last pr

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