Joe Biden gave a wonderful speech today in Iowa. It was not a campaign speech. It was not a policy speech. It was a speech which reached for our hearts and the hope the better angels in us emerge at some point during this Donald Trump era of history.
Jon Meacham very well could have written this speech. It read like an outline of our history from Lincoln to the present and our constant struggles with racism in America. I’m fairly certain Joe Biden has read The Soul of America by Jon Meacham. It should be read by all 330 million Americans if they read but one book this year.
Donald Trump is our version of a George Wallace/Richard Nixon clone. It is on us that he occupies the White House. It is on us to make sure he vacates it in a year and a half.
America’s soul is an ideal. The American Dream is its doctrine. Donald Trump hasn’t a clue on either count.
This is on us.
Our collective soul depends on if we answer the call.