This Isn’t Normal, Either
Just beneath a thin veneer of orderliness, the United States faces a set of perilous, unresolved threats.
Squint the right way and things look almost normal. The barriers around the Capitol are gone. People are taking off their masks and going out. The Nats and Orioles are in the basement. Most of all, politics is boring again.
That’s not to say Washington is working well, mind you. Consider this week’s negotiations between President Joe Biden and Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, a Republican, over infrastructure spending—a priority that both parties (theoretically) support but one about how dull and workaday Biden’s prior week had been.
