Stark contrast between Biden, Dems and GOP

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“We’re not bystanders of history,” Biden declared. “We’re not powerless before the forces that confront us. It’s within our power of We the People. We’re facing the test of our time. We have to be the nation we’ve always been at our best: optimistic, hopeful, forward-looking. A nation that embraces light over dark, hope over fear, unity over division, stability over chaos.”

And then Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was Trump’s press secretary, gave the Republican response — a rehash of Trump’s “American carnage” inaugural speech, attacking “liberal wokeness” and with Orwellian craftiness, casting banning books, words and women’s reproductive rights as “freedom.”