Forget Super Bowl Sunday, it’s hyperbole month in Washington

“Like Lincoln, Biden comes to power at a time when a country is torn between conflicting visions of reality and identity”.  So says US historian, Jon Meacham, who contributed to the Biden inaugural address.   

This is just one example of the kind of hyperbole from the media and commentators generally in greeting the new administration in Washington.  Hearing these histrionics, one might imagine that the Biden administration is replacing a regime like those that were finally vanquished in Germany and Japan in 1945 or that, to use Meacham’s analogy of Lincoln, is facing the prospect of a civil war that will cost 600,000 lives.   

It is true that the presidential election was very close in the handful of states…