Harding spoke those words during his short-lived presidency (1921-1923) that followed the end of the first World War and the Spanish Flu pandemic. They ring true a century later, again following a war and a devastating pandemic. “Return to normalcy” was his campaign slogan for the election of 1920.
We’re all craving “normal” these days. But normal is hard to define unless you’re talking about a setting on the washing machine. Normalcy is generally what…