Democrats Are Already Past the Point of No Return

For Joe Biden, it’s over. Indeed, it has been over since the first presidential debate, after which the president’s allies consigned the president’s career to the ash heap. There’s no reversing this. Even if Joe Biden hangs on long enough to outlast the revolt against his candidacy, his candidacy is beyond repair. The enthusiasm among rank-and-file Democrats for his candidacy cannot be revivified. The funds Democrats need to promote its messages and execute a competent get-out-the-vote effort will stay locked up in the bank accounts of party stalwarts who aren’t in the business of throwing good money after bad. Democrats on the frontlines in November will be compelled by their own logic to run away from Biden — perhaps even against him in redder redoubts — hastening the party’s crackup.

It’s already over for Joe Biden. The last person to recognize that reality seems to be the president himself, but he cannot hide from his lot forever. The president’s most indefatigable staffers can rage all they like over the imperiousness of the Obama acolytes in exile and their plan to seize the reins when Kamala Harris takes over. But the writing is on the wall.