Are we going to be a nation that lives not by the light of the truth, but in the shadow of lies?"
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The 16th President urged his nation in 1863 to rededicate itself, at a time when democracy was under existential threat, to the "unfinished work" of preserving government "of the people, for the people, by the people."
At the beginning of 2022, Biden -- who noted he was speaking from National Statuary Hall, where Lincoln sat at desk 191 when the space hosted the House of Representatives -- defined that same national quest as saving "the right to vote, the right to govern ourselves, the right to determine our own destiny."
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Showing a ruthlessness that has been absent from his leadership in recent months, he identified the spot where he could most wound Trump and repeatedly thrust a metaphorical sword.
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