Yesterday's inauguration was a triumph of democracy.

Our democracy has never been more democratic and we can all revel in democracy, democratizing

democracy.

If you don't believe me, you don't need to take my word for it.

You can listen to the mistress of ceremonies, Amy Klobuchar, who began this big triumph

with an absolute ode to democracy.

Now it falls on all of us.

Not just the two leaders we are inaugurating today to take up the torch of our democracy,

not as a weapon of political arson, but as an instrument for good.

We pledge today never to take our democracy for granted as we celebrate its remarkable

strength.

We celebrate its resilience, its grit.

We celebrate the ordinary people doing extraordinary things for our nation, the doctors and nurses

on the front line of this pandemic, the officers in the capital, a new generation never giving

up hope for justice.

And in the end, that is America.

Our democracy, a country of so much good.

And today, on these capital steps and before this glorious field of flags, we rededicate

ourselves to its cause.

Thank you.

There was just one aspect of the impeachment that made Amy Klobuchar's and the rest of

them, all of their exultation of democracy ring a little hollow.

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