The Designated Mourner
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January 2, 2020 at 07:53PM
via My Reading List: Unread https://nybooks.com/articles/2020/01/16/joe-biden-designated-mourner
«There is something eerie in this notion. Biden becomes not just the reembodiment of the dead Kennedys but a kind of political necromancer, calling forth an entire generation that has been wandering in a civic Hades, lost to the world of democratic engagement. He also becomes the man who can imaginatively reverse time, who can take us all back to 1960, back to the beginning of the story so that it can be told again without the blood-soaked pages.
The most important question, though, is what gave Biden the right to make this vast claim?»