Deal with It: Biden’s State of the Union Was an Aesthetic Win

Behold, as I rise to write a wildly unpopular Corner post:

My reaction to Biden’s State of the Union address inevitably falls upon aesthetic lines. It is perhaps my cardinal flaw to analyze politics in the post–social media, “everything everywhere all at once” era as a primarily performative act whose core policy substance is kept far away from the grubby hands of hoi polloi and whose primary goal is therefore just “moving voters” around like pieces on a tabletop game board rather than accomplishing concrete achievements.

So, if you’re looking...