If Biden Doesn’t Have the ‘Capacity’ to Do the Job, He Shouldn’t

In Politico, Jonathan Martin has authored a long feature titled “Here’s How Biden Can Turn It Around,” which, before it gets into the nitty-gritty of our president’s present political predicament, contains this remarkable passage:

I must stop Martin right there. This is not “extraordinary”; it is disqualifying. If, as Martin proposes twice in the space of a single paragraph, Joe Biden lacks the “capacity to do the job” in a manner that allows him to “govern and campaign in the manner of previous incumbents,” then he cannot be the president of the United States. As is his wont, Martin is more focused on the “campaign” part of the equation, but, relative to the “govern” part, that doesn’t matter. If what Martin describes is true — and judging by what we can all see with our own eyes, it clearly is — then the question before us is not whether Joe Biden can win a second term, but how long it will take before he triggers a constitutional crisis.