Long derided for having a mind like the Platte River — wide but not deep — Joe Biden has usually compensated by choosing good people. The people he has nominated to staff his new administration are really very good. And mostly well-positioned. Although most of them served in previous Democratic administrations, notably Barack Obama’s, this group so far has set a different tone. Rather than being eager to say and be heard to say the right thing, they appear keener to think and do the right thing. That should reassure many people who are desperate for a competent, less feckless American administration. But Talleyrand feels uneasy. Moral alignment is not an active ethics. The problem with bien-pensants is that they tend not to react well to advice from multiple perspectives. Or to time bombs.
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