Joe Biden needs to make voters understand how to make this ‘the best of times’

President Joe Biden should emulate Franklin D. Roosevelt's “fireside chats” with a series of major policy addresses on the theme of “This can be the best of times ...if.” His job is to fill in the “if.” Photo by Samuel Corum/UPI | License Photo Charles Dickens called it the “best and worst of times” in his Tale of Two Cities. His great novel contrasted the relative stability and prosperity in London with the chaos and confusion in revolutionary Paris. In some ways, this mirrors the profound differences between our two political parties. The U.S. public appears irreversibly divided on virtually…