Standing in what looked like some sort of medieval crypt, President Joe Biden last night gave a televised speech on the "battle for the soul of the nation." On one level, it was quite ho-hum—so unrooted in anything of the moment, so lackluster in its delivery, so full of pablum and platitudes that it's easy to wonder what the point of it all was.
But of course, on another level, the point was very clear. Biden's soul of the nation speech was meant to rally people to vote for Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections, through a combination of pointing out the things Democrats have (allegedly) done right and, more emphatically, things former President Donald Trump and "MAGA Republicans" have done wrong.
