CBS chief political analyst John Dickerson joined Stephen Colbert on Thursday for a special live edition of The Late Show, where the two fawned over President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address by claiming that simply by giving the speech, Biden “reknits those bonds” of democracy.
After Colbert asked why the speech was important, Dickerson waxed poetic:
Look, ringed around the Capitol where Joe Biden had gone to so many previous State of the Unions were 8-foot-high black fences as a result of the attack on January 6. This speech given in that place and that marble hall that was attacked on January 6, 2021, started his presidency. I mean, it didn’t exactly, he wasn’t inaugurated yet, but it started this period of time that we are in. So, every ritual of democracy that takes place in a healthy fashion reknits those bonds that were torn up on the…
