Locals look toward unity under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris
The Hawk Eye
The historic inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday left many locals cautiously optimistic for a restored sense of unity following four years of Donald Trump s oftentimes divisive presidency.
Ryan Osbourne, a government teacher at Burlington High School, said divisions between the country s two main political parties are nothing new, especially around elections, but the U.S. has a long history of overcoming those differences and forging ahead. The country is divided right now, Osbourne said. But we ve seen division before, and I think that we are in a situation where division is going to happen because that s the way democracy works and sometimes that division gets exacerbated, it gets a little messy and chaotic even, but at least to this point in our history, we ve shown the ability to overcome it. . Our institutions have held up and