My thoughts are as follows:
- The absence of a crowd wasn’t really felt during the swearing-in ceremony, but it was during the parade. What’s a parade without a crowd?
- Lady Gaga and J Lo were excellent. I particularly appreciated Lady Gaga’s clear allusion to the events of January 6 when she looked back at the flags on the Capitol.
- The Biden speech was pretty much as I expected, but he was more forceful than I anticipated on the evils of lies and Trumpism, which was a good thing.
- Some of the images of last night’s TV show–Bruce Springsteen playing an acoustic guitar by himself on the Lincoln Memorial, and Katy Perry performing in front of a huge fireworks display–will stay with me for a long time. It shows we still can do some things right.
- Mostly, I’m just glad it happened. Can you imagine how you would feel today if we were looking forward to four more years of Trump, knowing that there were no adults in the room? Just think how frightening that prospect would be.
Normalcy, here we come. Thank God.