The incoming US president must be bold, decisive and brave if he is to win the hearts and minds of shellshocked Americans.
When Joe Biden announced his candidacy for president of the United States in April 2019, he proclaimed it a “battle for the soul of this nation”. After four years of division, disruption and discord, he declared “everything that has made America is at stake”. It was a recurring theme that drove his march to the White House.
But as he takes the oath of office on January 20 Biden will inherit a crisis trifecta that nobody could have predicted two years ago.
Foremost is a COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 350,000 Americans and inflicted chronic ailments upon millions more.
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