The Gettysburg Address was initially panned. It didn't become something until later.

Biden's speech was something out of West Wing or The American President. It was an unequivocal signal to the Democratic base. The Washington press corps is having a case of the vapors because they were specifically called out for thirty years of both-sidesing but history is going to be kind to that speech, mark my words. Biden either needed to draw a line in the sand or declare "peace in our time."

I find myself recalling more and more the certainty with which Nate Silver et. al. predicted a Hilary Clinton win in 2016 and recognizing that whatever we thought we knew about demographics and popular opinion in 2016, we know a fuckton less, not more.

Here's what I know - the people who are upset are generally the ones who got called out. And the people who are upset are being abject pussies about it. It's sound and fury signifying nothing. This is what happens to a bully when you stand up to him - he dissolves like a sugar cube in tea. And the people who have been calling Democrats fascists since fuckin' Newt Gingrich's Contract with America are fanning themselves over the idea that you can't simultaneously be a patriot and an insurrectionist.