I frequently made the point during Trump’s first term that the man on golf cart viewed the presidency as a prize to be enjoyed, not a job, let alone a public trust. Biden’s comments about his fitness and his candidacy during the ABC interview had a similar smell to them. Biden appears to think that he earned the nomination, so the rest of us just have to get on board. If he does his best and loses, he can live with that.
That attitude is just wrong. The objectives are to save liberal democracy from Donald Trump and to nominate a candidate who is capable of serving for the next four years, not to give Biden a reward for four positive years in office. To keep him as the nominee means forfeiting the blue team’s best argument against Trump–his manifest lack of fitness to serve. The public has already told us consistently and resoundingly that throwing that card away costs us the support of undecided voters and thus the election. It cannot stand.