It's jarring for some to realize that since 9/11 is now 22 years ago, there are plenty of folks in this country too young to remember it. Not much different, probably, from how people who experienced Pearl Harbor or the Kennedy assassination felt — how could they possibly explain what life was like before?
In that vein, we cats worry that a whole generation of kids is growing up thinking that a President behaves like Donald Trump.
No, no, no! We all have to explain to them that no way in hell did a POTUS ever openly call people names, tweet garbage in the middle of the night, cage children at the border, deny a pandemic, refuse to concede or even have a Presidential transition, skip a successor's inauguration, stage an insurrection, and all the other horrible things that Trump has done. The big stuff is so overwhelming that sometimes even we can forget all the small violations of protocol that both Donald and his minions were guilty of.
Helpfully, we were reminded today that a true President does gracious and classy things. Joe Biden, in Hanoi, visited the John McCain Memorial there, spoke quietly to the servicemen guarding it, made the sign of the cross, and left a challenge coin behind.
We hope that youngsters who think a politician only hurls childish insults will see this video someday and realize that leaders from opposite parties, even those whose tickets run against each other in a Presidential year, can serve together and be friends. Firing Trump and hiring Biden took the country out of the grip of a malevolent mobster and put it in the hands of a decent and elegant man. We cats PURR.
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