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Joe Biden: Triumph, tragedy and the fate of the center

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The Importance of Grief in Politics

Biden's son died in a tragic train accident right before he took office. He was raised to believe in a benevolent God, a merciful God. At that point, suddenly the church felt to him completely useless. The sheer disaster of going from the very top to the very bottom was completely unmooring.

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