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Since before he even officially announced his candidacy, many who had long hoped that Joe Biden would run for President have argued that he would be especially equipped to restore a sense of calm, and normalcy to an increasingly divided nation reeling after years of Trumpâs presidency. In response, those of us on the left have argued that not only will Trumpâs hold on the Republican party long outlast his time in office, but that his base simply is not interested in âcalmâ, or the return to the normal and civility that liberals long for. Frankly, long before but particularly since Trump lost his bid for re-election, the right has been escalating in ways that have gone above and beyond in validating the concerns of the left. Perhaps one of the most recent examples of their only intensifying anger and violence took place in Washington D.C. on December 12th, when right wing protestors and Proud Boy members once again descended upon the city