While the case against Mr. Trump is that people can’t take more disruption, the Democratic agenda itself has grown so disruptive that the idea of a Biden return to normalcy is nonsense.
The Floyd-related events have put unexpectedly complex political forces in motion for the Democrats. It was remarkable that no one at the Democratic convention mentioned the post-Floyd protests, looting or shootings, often in black neighborhoods. How hard would it have been for Chicago-born Michelle Obama to say something useful? Instead, Team Biden decided it was in their interest to pretend a major political event doesn’t exist.
And maybe that calculation was right. Back during the pre-pandemic, pre-protest primaries, the general-election difficulties posed to a Democratic presidential candidacy by Bernie Sanders and the other progressives were already evident. Improvising a solution, the Democratic elders (literally) decided only Mr. Biden could soft-soap these “transformative” policies—now codified in the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force—while purporting that the election is entirely about Mr. Trump’s Twitter -sodden persona.
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