A famous American observed on a historic occasion: “If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.” Our current political situation seems to me to lack any helpful precedent to orient us. We’ve got Woodrow Wilson, of course, but Wilson’s stroke occurred in the course of his second term. Democrats didn’t have the temerity to serve him up for another term. I thought it might be useful to offer a few arguable plot points that may bear on where we are now.
• Something is seriously wrong with President Biden. We have commented frequently on this obvious fact since the presidential campaign of 2020. We saw with our own eyes that there was a reason his 2020 campaign kept him locked in the basement.
• The fact of Biden’s declining mental capacity became visible to all during his debate with President Trump on June 27. Biden has served up a series of incredible excuses for his moments of senility, but they comport with the other such moments documented virtually every day by RNC Research on X and by the Washington Free Beacon in its Joe Biden’s Senior Moment of the Week video series, now in its third season.
• Biden’s patent incapacity has created both a political crisis for Democrats and a national crisis for the United States. The Democratic establishment will quickly coalesce around an effort to resolve the political crisis by replacing Biden with Vice President Kamala Harris as its presidential nominee. They will let the national crisis fester.
• For the moment Biden resists winding up his campaign. We have to understand that his brain trust has narrowed to Hunter Biden and Dr. Jill. He purports not to know it’s over.
• In the next week Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will meet with Biden and ask him to give up his presidential campaign. They will cite the damage he is doing to Democrats around the country. He no longer serves their purposes.
• In the eyes of the press Biden has committed the unpardonable sin. He has embarrassed it. It was only yesterday when news of Biden’s incapacity was deemed “misinformation” and “disinformation.” Now it’s a given.
• One could say that Biden has made the mainstream press look like morons, but it would be more accurate to say that he has exposed them as tools and fools. We have known all along. It has kept us going for over 22 years, but still there we have it.
• The critical fact is the damage that Biden does to the Democrats’ prospect of holding on to power. The press now continues its service to the Democrats’ cause by covering rather than covering up Biden’s incapacity.
• In one way or another we will learn more of Biden’s condition in coming days.
• How will Kamala Harris go down with the public as the Democrats’ presidential nominee? “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” Here we have to project ahead a few weeks from today.
• Harris is a dolt with a back story or two that may or may not be told, but the mainstream media will shore her up. I would guess that once Biden terminates his campaign, a relief will set in of which Harris will be the beneficiary. She will select Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro as her running mate.
• Harris will seek to impersonate a serious person. She will harp on abortion in the name of health care. She will heighten the contrasts with Trump.
• There ought to be hell to pay for every politician, reporter, pundit, and talking head who has covered up Biden’s condition, Harris included, but it’s difficult to get from ought to is.
• Harris will pick up support from quarters where it has been leeching from Biden. She will also lose some voters who have hung in there with Biden. A short campaign affords less time for her to be exposed as the left-wing lightweight she is.
• Biden will serve out the rest of his term in his compromised condition. That too ought to be a scandal, but (forgive me for repeating myself) it’s difficult to get from ought to is.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/07/where-we-are-now-6.php
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