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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and guests about politics.

It's Thursday, April 8th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. Joe Biden ran for president as the

country's unifier in chief. At his campaign kickoff rally in Philadelphia, almost two years ago,

he emphasized his history as a consensus builder, a believer in the power of political compromise.

To me, our principles must never be compromised, but compromise itself is not a dirty word.

Consensus is not a weakness. It's the only where our founders down the road there thought it was the one where we could govern.

It was necessary.

It was designed the way the Constitution sits.

It requires consensus.

You know, I did it when I was the Senate.

It's what I did as your vice president, working with Barack Obama.

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