“Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.”—the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Aug. 28, 1963
“Our long national nightmare is over.”—President Gerald Ford, Aug. 9, 1974
I’m not sure which of those two historical quotes better captures the moment Monday as America marks the end of an era—I mean, error—as President Joe Biden departs the White House and retires to his oceanfront mansion in Delaware and his vice president, Kamala Harris, presumably returns to California to plot her next move.
But since President Donald Trump’s Grover Cleveland-like return to the Oval Office happens to fall on the same day that we observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day, let’s go with the former.
As he exits stage (far) left, Biden as recently as Jan. 10 insisted that he “could have beaten Trump” had he not been forced by Democratic Party…
