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Strange gesture suggested — "If Biden were willing to grasp the nettle..."

I'm just glancing at the New Yorker... erstwhile home of Jeffrey Toobin, who made a strange gesture the other day — grasping and getting stung. I think I would have laughed at that headline in any case — "Joe Biden and the Possibility of a Remarkable Presidency/If Biden were willing to grasp the nettle, the sting would be real, but history would judge him well for trying." 

 

What is this stinging nettle? 

If Biden’s not guarding his approval ratings for a second run, he could... push to expand and reform the courts. He could embrace the Green New Deal, moving money from the Pentagon to the national-security task of building out solar and wind power and setting irrevocably in motion an industrial transition that would transform our economy over the next generation. He could take millions of undocumented immigrants out of the shadows. He could make sure that we have a commission to examine and recommend reparations for Black and indigenous Americans. And so on.... 

He hasn’t risked much over the years... His biggest virtue is the dull (if welcome) one of decency. But the odd situation he could be stepping into... might give him an unlikely chance for greatness. 

The "odd situation" is that he's so old that he won't be jockeying for a second term and that he'd be succeeding Trump the Terrible. This, we're told, creates an opportunity to go big — to "grasp the nettle."

ADDED: The figurative use of "nettle" goes back to the 1400s, the OED tells us. And Shakespeare used it in 1598 — in "Henry IV, Pt. 1." It's Hotspur (reading from a letter and arguing with it):

'The purpose you undertake is dangerous'—why, that's certain. 'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. 'The purpose you undertake is dangerous, the friends you have named uncertain, the time itself unsorted, and your whole plot too light for the counterpoise of so great an opposition.' Say you so, say you so? I say unto you again, you are a shallow, cowardly hind, and you lie. What a lack-brain is this! By the Lord, our plot is a good plot as ever was laid, our friends true and constant; a good plot, good friends, and full of expectation; an excellent plot, very good friends. What a frosty-spirited rogue is this!

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