Joe Biden is going out quietly but with trademark decency | Margaret Sullivan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : "The Wall Street Journal reprised its once disparaged and now praised coverage from last spring about the president's increasing frailty with a story about how staff shored him up and distracted the public and the press: "Aides kept meetings short and controlled access, top advisers acted as go-betweens and public interactions became more scripted.
39% : But it was also substantive, and Biden sounded the familiar notes as he pledged to attend next month's inauguration and explained why he invited Trump to the White House, despite having often depicted him as a threat to democracy.
27% : One of Barack Obama's former aides, Jon Lovett, took a sarcastic jab on the Pod Save America podcast: "Joe Biden believes in tradition and institutions, and we should only have one president at a time, and I think it's a surprising choice to allow it to be Donald Trump.
10% : Donald Trump sucks up every bit of oxygen in the room with his daily outrages - horrifying cabinet choices, transactional friendships with oligarchs, appalling social-media posts.

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