be able to look back at these six months or so. you might argue you could teach a class on america from january 6th, 2021, until roughly november 6th, right? and what do those 11 months tell you about the worst of us and the best of us? and it may just be that the best of us isn t as great as many people would want. but guess what, that s human nature. all right. i ll see your love of susan glasser s journalism and raise you one susan glasser, quote. i m going to read this and for dramatic effect, after reading it we re going to go to break and continue our conversation. she writes in the new yorker, in 2020 biden campaigned as a deal-maker, not a trump the, i could sell at you brooklyn bridge-type deal-maker, but an actual washington insider who can make this town work again-type deal-maker. this is why the stakes for him now are so high.