Writing the first draft of President Biden's legacy

Joe Biden's inauguration four years ago took place just two weeks after rioters stormed the Capitol to disrupt the certification of his victory. When Biden's presidency began with his exhortation that "democracy has prevailed," few imagined it would end like this: being succeeded by a man who, Biden warned, "will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation."

"When Joe Biden came into office, he said that he was going to defend democracy against autocracy," said Atlantic staff writer Franklin Foer. "That was Job #1 for him. And everybody knew what he meant."

Foer wrote a book about President Biden's first two years in office, titled "The Last Politician." What did he mean by that? "I was thinking about the way in which our politics is this war of attrition between these two sides that despise one another," said Foer.