In other words, will Biden step aside or not?<\/p>\n
Biden is clearly being a stubborn old man and refusing to see the obvious, but the voices clamouring for him to step down are pretty loud.<\/p>\n
It’s been interesting to watch. One thing is clear: the leadership clique of which I wrote recently<\/a> has not<\/em> been uniting around Biden despite it all. His debate performance was so bad that it got even their attention.<\/p>\n Rather, it seems to be Biden’s inner circle (and a few allies of that inner circle) versus just about everyone else. And those allies of Biden are not just his fellow centrists<\/a>.<\/p>\n What’s distressing to me is how Trumpy the president and his allies are getting. Biden is clinging tightly to his selfish goal of being a two-term president, and engaging in all sorts of rationalizations that fly in the face of self-evident facts to do so. And suddenly, questions about the basic fitness to serve are being swept aside by Biden’s allies, much like Trump’s allies have long swept aside such concerns. It doesn’t seem to matter so much as long as they can use Biden for their ideological purposes.<\/p>\n