The same people who raised tens of millions of dollars for the president’s reelection campaign just four weeks ago; the same people who three weeks ago called unflattering video footage of the president “cheapfakes” and silenced those questioning his fitness with mockery and censure; the same people who told us the president is running rings around them on policy and is the smartest guy in the room, are now lining up one by one to stab him in the back and in the front, calling him unfit to run, demanding he step aside.

Those same people who were perfectly content to help reelect him for four more years were happy to do so as long as his true state of mind was hidden from the American people. Now that Americans have seen the truth with their own eyes at the disastrous Atlanta debate—or rather, now that New York Times readers and CNN watchers have seen it—it’s coup o’clock for the “defenders of democracy” in the Democratic Party. ...

You don’t have to like Biden or be a fan of his presidency to find their cowardice, their disloyalty, and their humiliation of Biden appalling.