Heilemann: Seeing Biden with Past Presidents Was Like Seeing ‘The Avengers’

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HEILEMANN: "And yet, the thing that was to me so striking about today was that, kind of comforting sense, even with the masks, even with the distancing, even without the crowd, those shots inside Statuary Hall that we’re familiar with from every inauguration. The sight of the Clintons and the Bushes and the Obamas, the Avengers, sort of the Marvel super heroes back up there together all in one place with their friend Joe Biden. All of them, I think, feeling — all of them sharing that same view that a lot of Americans had which is that we did narrowly avert catastrophe in America, and that they were all there to kind of buttress their buddy Joe Biden and see him in some ways as the natural and necessary corrective to what’s been going on.”