although it tried hard.
Nor has it become "the greatest country on earth" due to Biden.
It is a wealthy, powerful, large country full of variety and ambitions and subject to challenges, as all countries are.
The opportunity is to embrace normalhood. Be as great as you can be. Avoid obnoxious comparisons. Bad things can happen in the US. Good things too. Hopefully, we are embarking on a happy period of greater wisdom about the risks and rewards of human experience.