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    Jonah Goldberg: ‘Return to normalcy’ isn’t really what Biden’s base wants

    by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency Feb 24, 2021 3 minutes

    Joe Biden ran for president on a “return to normalcy.” His challenge is that there are three competing definitions of normalcy for him to contend with.

    Biden didn’t actually use the slogan “return to normalcy.” But as numerous political observers (including yours truly) noted during the campaign, that was both Biden’s implicit appeal and his best shot at victory. As Jonathan Martin and Sydney Ember of The New York Times wrote in March 2019, “Biden, in speeches at home

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