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With his inauguration this week, America’s 46th president has vowed to heal the US. But Joe Biden inherits a country more paranoid and polarised than ever.
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Mike Seccombe.
US President Joe Biden this week.
Credit: Tom Brenner / Reuters
Joe Biden’s inauguration speech was an appeal replete with hopeful words: healing, renewal, resolve, opportunity, security, liberty, dignity, respect, honour, democracy and “yes, the truth”. And the one he came back to time and again: unity.
The scene behind him, though, emphasised the magnitude of the task ahead. Dignitaries wearing masks to guard against a plague that has killed 400,000 Americans were outnumbered by 25,000 National Guard personnel, each vetted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for fear of an insider attack on the event; the public kept outside the razor-wire perimeter of the “green zone”.