Do Biden’s Allies Want Him to Bring America ‘Back to Normal’?

The Biden administration recently hit the 50-day mark, and already, political media are grading him generously — too generously, some would argue — for the progress made on rolling out the vaccination of Americans and getting us to post-pandemic life.

But Biden and his team will face a bit of a catch-22 in the coming months. As early spring turns to late spring, and more and more Americans get vaccinated, the public expectation that daily life should be “back to normal” will grow considerably. And not all of Biden’s usual allies are all that eager to get “back to normal.”

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Jim Geraghty

Jim Geraghty is the senior political correspondent of National Review.

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The Biden administration recently hit the 50-day mark, and already, political media are grading him generously — too generously, some would argue — for the progress made on rolling out the vaccination of Americans and getting us to post-pandemic life.

But Biden and his team will face a bit of a catch-22 in the coming months. As early spring turns to late spring, and more and more Americans get vaccinated, the public expectation that daily life should be “back to normal” will grow considerably. And not all of Biden’s usual allies are all that eager to get “back to normal.”