KJP’s Failure Is Her Own

Joe Biden’s administration in exile has reached the “crabs in a bucket” stage. The moment one of its erstwhile members nears the point at which they might escape the gravity well of Biden’s disgrace, they’re pulled back down by their panicked and desperate colleagues.

Take Karine Jean-Pierre. Once the public face of the last administration, she had languished in self-imposed isolation since the election. She reemerged from obscurity this week with a forthcoming memoir in which she declares herself an “Independent,” liberated from the Democratic Party and Biden’s “broken White House.”