On Cusp Of Biden Speech, A State Of Disunity, Funk And Peril
Newsy
President Biden will step up to the House speaker's rostrum to address a nation in conflict with itself.
In good times or bad, American presidents come to Congress with a diagnosis that hardly differs over the decades. In their State of the Union speeches, they declare "the state of our union is strong," or words very much like it.
President Joe Biden's fellow Americans, though, have other ideas about the state they're in and little hope his State of the Union address Tuesday night can turn anything around.
America's strength is being sharply tested from within — and now from afar — as fate, overnight, made President Biden a wartime president in someone else's conflict, leading the West's response to a Russian invasion of Ukraine that makes all the other problems worse.
