Opinion by Karen Tumulty: The president's compassion is his political superpower, and his infrastructure tour shows he can still use it.
in New Hampshire to celebrate the hard-fought passage of his new $1.2 trillion infrastructure plan, he was well-justified in claiming for himself and his allies a solid victory for finally addressing a problem that too many generations of politicians have talked about but allowed to languish.The messiness of the legislative process that brought the president to the Highway 175 bridge in Woodstock, N.H.
Amid a light dusting of early-season snowflakes on Tuesday afternoon, the president also allowed himself a moment of nostalgia about the earliest days of his career as a senator.“I used to get kidded because I spent so much time commuting every day between Wilmington, Delaware, after my wife and daughter were killed, back to Washington every single day, 260 miles a day.
Understanding the anxieties and concerns of those people, and making their lives better, Biden said, are why he went into politics and eventually ran for the nation’s highest office. Yet the delicate balance between reassuring the country and acknowledging its fears is a tricky one for any president who is trying to steer a nation through a series of difficult challenges. And Biden has been dealt more than his share of them.
Empathy has always been Biden’s political superpower — one we have not seen displayed enough as he has been trapped in the Oval Office negotiating for votes to get his domestic agenda over the finish line.Even in the worst days of his 2020 Democratic primary campaign, when his candidacy was being all but written off after his stumbles in the early states, I: As one of his town halls would come to an end, people would gravitate to the rope line.
All of which makes me wonder where that quality has gone as Biden’s presidency hits its rockiest stretch yet, with
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