Compared to his predecessor, Joe Biden is a fundamentally good and decent human being. On Tuesday, Biden summoned that energy as he played the role of healer, counselor, and secular priest during his visit to Buffalo to help that community (and the nation) mourn in the aftermath of Saturday's white supremacist terrorist attack.
As CNN commentator Stephen Collinson observes, Biden connected the Buffalo attack to previous "racist massacres" in Charleston, El Paso and Pittsburgh "to spell out what is now awfully obvious. The United States faces a significant scourge of White supremacist extremism that erupts periodically and results in the mass, racially motivated murder of innocent people."
