Joe Biden’s Win: The Best Day of 2020

I’ve lived in Washington, D.C. for 15 years of my life and never experienced a day like that.

During my college years, I lived through 9/11, WTO riots, and the 2002 sniper. Since returning about a decade ago, I’ve lived through multiple championship parades, protests, marches, and even the military attacking peaceful protestors.

Despite all of that, there was never a day in this city like Saturday, November 7, 2020, and I’m so glad I was here the day that Joe Biden was projected to become the next President of the United States.

I was here on Inauguration Day in 2017. It was cold, wet, and dark. It felt off. Inauguration Day is usually this city’s biggest party. That day it felt like a funeral, and that’s no hyperbole. There was no excitement. The few maga attendees were largely quiet in the morning heading down to the National Mall. There were no crowds. The bars and restaurants in our neighborhood were empty. In retrospect, he lost the 2020 election that day — the majority of the country didn’t support him.

For the next four years, and particularly in 2020, he and Republicans cast a pall over the city. We had an unwelcome visitor who happened to be squatting in our house. And we couldn’t get rid of him until November 2020. Get rid of him we did though.