Lord, help me Jesus. It was announced last night that Joe Biden will give a primetime speech outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia on Thursday evening. The subject of the speech will be ““continued battle for the soul of the nation”. My hair hurts just reading that. How on Earth does a soulless meat sack propose to hector us on the soul of the nation? To paraphrase Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, are the Shades of Independence Hall to be thus polluted?