Frank Bruni: Joe Biden’s withering olive branch

The year will turn, Joe Biden will take the oath of office, and we’ll heal.That was the fundamental promise of his campaign, no? That was the hope.But I’m struggling mightily to hold on to even a sliver of it.Like President-elect Biden, I believe in common ground, in comity, in identifying where we intersect rather than where we diverge. I was drawn to him, as were a critical mass of other Americans, because he represented the calm after the storm, the sense after the sensation.But i