The Week: Biden Rebuffs His Panicked Party’s Pleas

• The obvious solution for Democrats: Replace Biden without telling him.

• White House visits by neurologists, hitherto private, now admitted without being explained; the crooked, ne’er-do-well son taking part in staff meetings and press conferences; the New York Times, liberalism’s Old Farmer’s Almanac, calling on its disgraced commander (twice!) to do the gentlemanly thing—like the toothless locals or ancient rituals that are the signs in horror films of impending disaster, both the pleas of sometime admirers and the clumsiness of his own and his protectors’ actions seem to impel President Biden to leave the race. But here’s the thing: He has the nomination locked up. He is the incumbent in an office he has spent decades pursuing and that his inner circle has every reason, from continued access to the prospect of pardons, to want him to keep. Moderate congressmen fearful of losing their seats in a GOP wipeout will be ignored. What leverage did they ever have in this administration? Democrats may have pretended that Biden’s debility was a Republican invention a little too long for their own good.

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• The obvious solution for Democrats: Replace Biden without telling him.

• White House visits by neurologists, hitherto private, now admitted without being explained; the crooked, ne’er-do-well son taking part in staff meetings and press conferences; the New York Times, liberalism’s Old Farmer’s Almanac, calling on its disgraced commander (twice!) to do the gentlemanly thing—like the toothless locals or ancient rituals that are the signs in horror films of impending disaster, both the pleas of sometime admirers and the clumsiness of his own and his protectors’ actions seem to impel President Biden to leave the race. But here’s the thing: He has the nomination locked up. He is the incumbent in an office he has spent decades pursuing and that his inner circle has every reason, from continued access to the prospect of pardons, to want him to keep. Moderate congressmen fearful of losing their seats in a GOP wipeout will be ignored. What leverage did they ever have in this administration? Democrats may have pretended that Biden’s debility was a Republican invention a little too long for their own good.