Some excitement might be coming to Rehoboth Beach, the quiet Delaware beach town where President Joe Biden spends a lot of time. Rehoboth, where I spent many summers growing up, is a place with boutique shops, pizza parlors, farms, a large gay community, and million-dollar homes. People have opinions about their neighbor, President Biden, both pro and con, but they are easygoing about it.
This is why it’s sad that the Biden document mess has come to the shore. While just three hours from Washington, D.C., it’s one of the places in the country where the old American ethic of tolerance and peace pervades. Part of it may be because the churning presence of the grand and mighty Atlantic Ocean right outside the window tends to soothe the soul and put things into perspective. Ultimately, in the eyes of God, our political battles don’t seem that important.
[In some ways, which Mark doesn’t approach, this feels like a lament for pre-social-media, over-politicized America. You may have well replace Rehoboth with NFL, schools, Hollywood, and so on. To some extent that may be more wishful thinking than reality, but there is no doubt that we have left no place left for a retreat from political and cultural battles. — Ed]
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