The president’s primetime speech named Trump and ‘Maga Republicans’ as a threat facing American democracy
Joe Biden’s journey from idealist to realist continues. But it is not quite complete.
After 36 years in the Senate, he stepped into the US presidency in 2021 as an apostle of bipartisanship, convinced that his authoritarian-minded predecessor Donald Trump would fade away and the Republican party would rediscover its bearings.