Joseph Biden:

It's a lot different.

David Brooks writes about this invisible moral fabric that holds up society and requires decent citizens to make it work and function, notwithstanding what the Constitution says. It's needed for buoyancy.

The dysfunction of this government, the crassness of the way in which public discourse takes place, the diminishing and relentless attacks on the only two groups wearing striped shirts, the referees, you, the press, and the courts, is demoralizing.

And the best example of that is Charlottesville. You know, I was a good boy. I was keeping my — Barack and I were letting like what happened to us, give us a year to get settled and move.

But I couldn't remain silent, because the idea of a president of the United States equating guys coming out of fields with torches, carrying swastikas, using the same anti-Semitic bile, the same bile that was used in the streets of Nazi Germany, and then comparing them, saying they're equal responsibility with those who are protesting, you know, it just — it does more than dumb down the system.

It erodes those invisible elements of citizenship that sort of are the buoyancy for what makes this nation so special. So, it's really different. It's less his policies than his — the way he conducts — how unpresidential he is.

And, by the way, it's not — it's dangerous internationally, because it's not being presidential formal. It's being presidential under certain minimum requirements the rest of the world looks to, a consistency.

Look, we went from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan, ideologically gigantic change, but there was a continuity in the way the rest of the world looked at us.

They are not at all certain of who we are right now.