Pre-inaugural snapshot: Americans voice anguish and hope as Biden prepares to take office
Few U.S. presidents taking the oath of office have found themselves on quite the razor’s edge of peril and promise as Joe Biden. American presidential inaugurations have often come against the backdrop of momentous events — the Civil War, the Great Depression, the war in Vietnam, the civil rights era. Together with a trailblazing vice president-elect, Kamala Harris, Biden on Wednesday inherits a country shadowed by insurrection and contagion. Across the country, many Americans saw a moment of national ideals tested, and sometimes found wanting. She calls the moment “our civil rights movement,” but is under no illusions about the American racial landscape changing overnight.
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