It’s only in the last few days where I have been able to wake up and not immediately think what fresh misery may have come from President Trump’s toilet-tweeting narcissism. There’s been this healthy calm in the couple of minutes from the time that my dog wakes me up around 3-4am and the time that I reach for my phone on my bedside table. I almost can’t describe the healthy calm, but it is growing in familiarity.
In the coming Biden-Harris Administration, I really want to be optimistic enough to expect these kinds of healthy calms. Because government work is hard work, and it requires an absolute mountain of grit and top-down leadership to just break-even on the day. There are more than 330 million people in this country, after all, and they certainly do not all agree with each other as I am confident we have all witnessed. But these are professionals at the helm, and they’ve all been doing it for awhile. Nobody is exactly new at this, especially the oldest hat on the rack, a Mr. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware.
This calm does not come with any ease, mind you. The hurtles that this new Administration are going to have to deal with are seemingly innumerable, and are stacked even higher due to the abject failures of the current Administration that’s now wrapping up with nothing more than a few more rounds on one of Trump’s golf courses, an entire Republican party full of incredible liars, and a scary afternoon through one of Melania’s hot trash Christmas nightmares.
Sleepless nights are guaranteed with the amount of work that’s needed to be done. And let’s be honest here: Biden and Harris are probably going to stumble a good amount during the first year. Because of course they will. Anyone would with the country in the torrential disrepair that it exists in at the moment. But we haven’t even had any kind of positive incrementalism in the past four years, so chunking away at the problems we have little by little, maybe sometimes with a healthy victory here and there, might be a good thing. All eyes are on the first couple weeks of the Biden-Harris Administration, though. The excitement builds even though we’re still nine weeks and a boat parade full of tears before then.
I don’t pretend to speak for anyone besides myself, as doing so otherwise has usually gotten me into fantastic trouble, unless the opportunity of showing leadership was front and center. What I do know is that this country has the potential to rise up from where we are to where we can be. After the convincing win of over 5.7 million (and counting) votes, the trajectory of our future has been changed to something you can actually dream about during your slumber.
-Andrew Michael Flynn
7:28am Central Time