Joe Biden's inaugural address was inspiring and a marked change from the one last delivered four years ago. There has been much commentary on it, of course, including this annotated version from the New York Times.
However, I found this article from the Wall Street Journal more interesting as it looks in detail at Biden's word choices, many of which were unique in the history of inaugural addresses: extremism, pandemic, systemic, and uncivil. His most repeated words were more hopeful: America, unity, and love.
It didn't have the rhetorical power of the greatest inaugural addresses but it fit the moment perfectly.
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