As President Biden wrapped up his first primetime performance Thursday night, his pronouncements served their predictable and short-term political ends, of course. More interesting, they dually serve as rhetorical choices, choices that feed into the natural process of historicization as COVID-19 loses its monopoly on our attention. What are the elements he stressed in his framing, and what lessons can we take away from the pandemic as the end potentially draws near? President Biden makes several mistakes in his first primetime performance that allow us to explore what these lessons are. They are worthy of note not because this speech...