In the wake of two extraordinary weeks in US politics by any measure, the outgoing president’s speech, when it came, was flat and confirmatory.  No new information, no memorable lines, no flash. Joe Biden stared into the teleprompter and repeated the content of his tweet, earlier in the week: He would not run for office again. He steepled and unsteepled his hands and told the public that America was “the most powerful idea in the history of the world”, that the country was “at an inflection point”, and that the “sacred task of perfecting our union” was “not about me,…

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