Joe Biden has been sworn in as the the 46th President of the United States.

It seems hard to imagine that this has come about after running a campaign largely from his basement, and having such paltry attendance at his rallies.

He did make a show of playing the unifying role. From the USA Today piece:

Biden called for a “fresh start” in Washington and vowed to fight as hard for those who didn’t vote for him as those who did support his candidacy.

“Politics doesn’t have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path,” Biden said. “Every disagreement doesn’t have to be a cause for total war.”

Touching on a theme often embraced by past presidents but largely missing over the past four years, Biden vowed to be a president for “all Americans.” He implored his critics to “hear me out” and “take a measure of me and my heart.” If they still disagreed, Biden said, he could live with it.

I am not sure that the rest of his cabinet will follow his rhetoric. It has only been a few days since others in his party were taking open shots at the outgoing administration. Speaker Pelosi released a statement  yesterday in which she noted the milestone of 400,000 dead from COVID-19 and lambasted the Trump response to the virus.