Poor Jon Meacham. The resident Morning Joe historian and occasional Biden speechwriter was in a decidedly dark and depressed mood on this Inauguration Day. Just look at the guy!
Meacham was down on the United States in general, claiming that “for 250 years, [America] more often than not has gotten things wrong.”
And he was down on Trump in particular. Meacham compared, albeit via a John Belushi line, Trump’s impending presidency to the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Meacham addressed himself to his fellow Trump detesters. He warned them that the days ahead will be “hard” and “depleting,” and acknowledged that a lot of people are “exhausted.”
You sensed that Meacham was speaking to himself!
Meacham urged people not to “surrender” their agency. He then broke out his Belushi line: “We didn’t give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.”
Tens of millions of…
